On Thursday 21 May 2009 01:56:16 Marco d'Itri wrote: > Does anybody see any downsides to this? > > ----- Forwarded message from Teodor <mteo...@gmail.com> ----- > > From: Teodor <mteo...@gmail.com> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Subject: Bug#529624: netbase: networking should not be stopped on reboot or > halt > > Package: netbase > Version: 4.34 > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > The current LSB header in the /etc/init.d/networking script contains: > # Default-Stop: 0 6 > > The networking should not be stopped at reboot or poweroff/halt since some > software depends on the networking to work until the host is down. One > example is 'apcupsd' and 'nut' software which needs to be able to detect on > slaves the power status reported by the master host which is actually > connected to the UPS. If the networking is stopped than the slaves cannot > connect to the remote daemon even if the UPS daemon is still working on the > master. > > The patch to achieve this is quite simple: > > --- /etc/init.d/networking 2008-07-26 02:02:15.000000000 +0300 > +++ /etc/init.d/networking_new 2009-05-20 18:45:36.000000000 +0300 > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ > # Required-Start: mountkernfs ifupdown $local_fs > # Required-Stop: ifupdown $local_fs > # Default-Start: S > -# Default-Stop: 0 6 > +# Default-Stop: > # Short-Description: Raise network interfaces. > ### END INIT INFO > The patch does not handle upgrades; existing rc.d links will be preserved and not changed to suit the new LSB defaults.
Thanks, Kel.
