[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#540694: /etc/init.d/ntp: stop action just kills daemon; redundant with sendsigs

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Sun Aug 9 17:36:08 UTC 2009


Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
File: /etc/init.d/ntp

"/etc/init.d/ntp stop" just sends a signal to ntp.  Thus, it doesn't
need to run at all; sendsigs will already signal all running processes
shortly afterward during the shutdown/reboot process.  Please remove all
the runlevels from the "Default-Stop" section of the init script header,
so that /etc/init.d/ntp does not run at shutdown/reboot.

Thanks,
Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.110           add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                    2.9-23          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2                  1:2.16-5        support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libedit2                 2.11-20080614-1 BSD editline and history libraries
ii  libncurses5              5.7+20090803-1  shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.8              0.9.8k-3        SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-23          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  netbase                  4.37            Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages ntp recommends:
ii  perl                          5.10.0-24  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages ntp suggests:
pn  ntp-doc                       <none>     (no description available)

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