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From: CD Rasmussen <cdr@sme.siemens.com>

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.56-6

Problem Description:

   When I try to run "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" I get a usage statement.
   This is when xdm is already running.

   Most of the init.d scripts source the init.d/functions file which
   would normally be no problem but the first thing in the file is
   code to set the RUNLEVEL variables by using the set command.  This
   swallows any command line arguments for the script.

   The best way I can think of that does not cause editing of every
   file that includes init.d/functions is to make the code not use set
   to parse the output from /sbin/runlevel.  This can easily be done
   by making use of a local evaluation for a function call.  Also the
   if statement around the assignment is not needed since the :=
   operator does that logic on a per variable basis.

Here is a tested patch.

========== snip ====================
--- functions-orig	Sat Feb 25 16:20:35 1995
+++ functions	Wed Sep 27 17:57:57 1995
@@ -13,16 +13,13 @@
   export PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"

   # Set RUNLEVEL and PREVLEVEL
-  if [ "$RUNLEVEL" = "" ]
-  then
-	levels=`runlevel`
-	if [ $? = 0 ]
-	then
-		eval set $levels
-		PREVLEVEL=$1
-		RUNLEVEL=$2
-	fi
-  fi
+  get_runlevel()
+  {
+    : ${PREVLEVEL:=$1}
+    : ${RUNLEVEL=$2}
+  }
+
+  get_runlevel `/sbin/runlevel`

   # A function to start a program.
   daemon() {
========== snip ====================

Hope this helps,
  Costa
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CD Rasmussen writes ("Bug#1499: "):
> Package: sysvinit
> Version: 2.56-6
>
> Problem Description:
>
>    When I try to run "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" I get a usage statement.
>    This is when xdm is already running.
>
>    Most of the init.d scripts source the init.d/functions file which
>    would normally be no problem but the first thing in the file is
>    code to set the RUNLEVEL variables by using the set command.  This
>    swallows any command line arguments for the script.

Why does /etc/init.d/xdm need init.d/functions ?  If it really does
there is almost certainly something wrong with it.  The xdm script
should be changed not to use init.d/functions.

See my earlier comments about another package having problems with
init.d/functions.

Can't we retire this thing ?

Ian.

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iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk said:
> Can't we retire this thing ?

Yeah, but not _now_. After the release.

	Bruce

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I like Ian Jackson's idea of ditching the functions file better than
my patch.  I was wondering who used those calls but figured it was one
of those requisite Debian things.

Costa

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   Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:27:57 -0700
   From: Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>

   iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk said:
   > Can't we retire this thing ?

   Yeah, but not _now_. After the release.

I'm not sure that any packages use it, but many packages source it.

In the next release of sysvinit, Bruce, you should remove the

   . /etc/init.d/functions

line from the top of the /etc/init.d/skeleton script.  That will
result in it not appearing in any new scripts.  At some point after
the release, we can mandate that all packages be modified not to use
the /etc/init.d/function script.  Then, after all packages have been
fixed, we can remove /etc/init.d/functions.

As Bruce said, however, this should happen after the release.

(In the meantime, /etc/init.d/functions could be modified to do
nothing, so it doesn't disable exection of the scripts from the
shell, as the current script does.)

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