Hi florian, * florian kriener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-29 16:53]: > I'm using DHCP here on my computer and the client for DHCP > starts fetchmail when my computer got a response. The > problem is that with that fetchmail is started before > postfix and spamd, which is not only ugly but leads to at > least one uncheckt spammail per boot.
Why don't you reorder your runlevels symlinks then? > So I investigated > that problem and found try-restart behaving like it does, > starting the daemon if it is not running already (which, > in my opinion, is not intuitive). it's restarting the daemon or starting it if it's not yet running. > And so it came to this > wishlist item. > > To lessen the pain (if you should recon this item), I already made that small > change: I am not too happy about including this patch for this corner-case. The init scripts in Debian include an LSB header that defines dependencies on other init scripts (well facilities to be precise). Did you already have a look at the insserv package which automatically reorders your init scripts based on these dependencies. This might be the right solution for you. Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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