In a message dated 1/6/2007 5:55:02 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I read throught this bug, but fail to understand it. Can you please try to rephrase it? Without understanding it, I'm not sure where to start to try to solve it. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen One of the sysvinit maintainers Yes, I will try. To see the problem get the latest sysvinit and cd to the src directory and run 'make halt'. Look at the size of the binary file halt. Then look at the size of the binary file /sbin/halt that comes with etch. There you will see /sbin/halt is smaller. The reason it is smaller is that ifdown.c in /sbin/halt is made into a no-op or blank or stub function and it doesn't bring the network interface down at all no matter if '-i' is present or '-i' is not present on the halt command line. The version in the sysvinit src directory is larger and it does work properly. I will write this again in another way to help with language translation efforts. At the present time, the ifdown.c module in the halt program in the sysvinit set does not get compiled in to the halt binary that is distributed with etch. However, the usage and man pages write that it is there and it does work. If you download the sysvinit source and compile it with 'make halt' in the src directory, it does get compiled in, that binary is 2K larger than than the one distributed with etch, and it does do the ifdown function properly. I have an idea about how this happened: The problem began some time ago as a result of a fix notice in the change log -- because. on one of the *bsd distros the ifdown.c wasn't appropriate for *bsd, and so in a 'fix' listed in the changelog to make it a do-nothing function but just on *bsd. However, somehow, this crippled version wrongly is sent out with linux too, that is the problem. To solve it, take a look at the ifdown.c in the 'halt' sysvinit program. Make sure that in the Debian and other Linux distros, the ifdown function actually is compiled in and that it works. To check, make sure a system with the network works. Then do ifconfig halt -i -w ifconfig all interfaces should be 'DOWN' on the second ifconfig if you have the right version of halt. The wrong version with etch will not change the state of the network interfaces. Thanks all! Harry Coin
