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Start-stop-daemon is the program that is used by the DEBIAN style init
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scripts to start and stop services. This program is part of the "dpkg"
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package by Ian Jackson. However there is also a seperate C version (the
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original is in perl) available written by Marek Michalkiewicz. I'm including
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it for your convinience.
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Note that the latest debian dpkg packages (4.0.18 and later) contain
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a much improved update-rc.d. This code is almost a year old.
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The original announcement follows:
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From: Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
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Message-Id: <199606060324.FAA19493@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
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Subject: Fast start-stop-daemon in C
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To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 05:24:18 +0200 (MET DST)
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Some time ago I wrote a faster C replacement for the start-stop-daemon
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perl script. I use it for some time now (the most recent changes were
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just a nicer help screen; the code is quite stable).
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This makes the system boot faster (especially on low end machines),
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and important system startup scripts no longer depend on another big
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package (perl). Maybe in the future we can get to the point where
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a minimal system will work without perl installed at all (packages
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which need it in {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts would depend on perl).
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The only problem known so far to me is that I have to reinstall this
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program after every dpkg upgrade which overwrites it with that nice
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slooow perl script :-).
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Just compile this program and drop the binary in /usr/sbin instead
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of the original /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon perl script (make a copy
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of it first, just in case). See below for source code. I placed it
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in the public domain, but if it has to be GPL-ed to be included in
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dpkg, just tell me. Including it in dpkg would close Bug#1670.
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I am posting it here so that it can be tested by more people than
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just me. Bugs are unlikely though.
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Have fun,
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Marek
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