***BOGO*** Re: Clarify what "sensible behaviour" is for init scripts

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 04 Jul 2008, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> # lighttpd running:
> ~# /etc/init.d/lighttpd start ; echo $?
>  * Starting web server lighttpd
> [fail]
> 1
[...]
> > Iñaki, if you ever encounter
> > bad init scripts, please report bugs against the offending packages.
> 
> In the above case which is the "bad" init script?:

lighttpd obviously. It's not a sensible behaviour to fail when asked to
start a service that is already running.

> - lighttpd uses LSB specs.

This seems to contradict what you told us before about what LSB compliant means
for you. :)

Cheers,
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