[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#488085: Bug#488085: /etc/init.d/fetchmail try-restart should be able to not start fetchmail if it is not running

[Nico Golde]

Hi florian,
* florian kriener <debian-bugs at leflo.de> [2008-06-29 16:53]:
> I'm using DHCP here on my computer and the client for DHCP 
> starts fetchmail when my computer got a response. The 
> problem is that with that fetchmail is started before 
> postfix and spamd, which is not only ugly but leads to at 
> least one uncheckt spammail per boot.

Why don't you reorder your runlevels symlinks then?

> So I investigated 
> that problem and found try-restart behaving like it does, 
> starting the daemon if it is not running already (which, 
> in my opinion, is not intuitive).

it's restarting the daemon or starting it if it's not yet 
running.

> And so it came to this 
> wishlist item.
> 
> To lessen the pain (if you should recon this item), I already made that small change:

I am not too happy about including this patch for this 
corner-case. The init scripts in Debian include an LSB 
header that defines dependencies on other init scripts (well 
facilities to be precise). Did you already have a look at 
the insserv package which automatically reorders your init 
scripts based on these dependencies.

This might be the right solution for you.

Kind regards
Nico
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