On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> writes:
> > NO.  invoke-rc.d is for package maintainer script use.  It shouldn't be used
> > anywhere else.  It is bad enough the amount of crap that happens at shutdown
> > because people started misusing it inside ifup/ifdown.d, etc.
> 
> Btw, after installing gnome I now get daily email from my
> /etc/policy-rc.d since /etc/cron.d/anacron uses invoke-rc.d:
> 
> 30 7    * * *   root    test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d 
> anacron start >/dev/null
> 
> Is this a bug in anacron? Surely this is not a maintainer script?

It looks fishy as all heck, yes.  Looks like both the initscript AND
invoke-rc.d are being abused at first glance.

It probably works just fine, but it is the sort of thing that we are likely
to break sooner or later.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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