[Pkg-ofed-devel] why does opensm have two initscripts?

[Guy Coates]

On 20/11/12 00:36, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Related to this work of updating packages, can someone explain to me why
> the opensm package contains two initscripts -- /etc/init.d/opensm and
> /etc/init.d/opensm-boot?  They're close to identical and I can't
> understand why we need both of them.  (And they cause problems when
Hi Roland,

As far as I remember, it was done to get srp luns mounted correctly at
boot time on lenny systems. In order to do that opensm needed to be up,
but /var was not necessarily writeable, so the daemons were unable to log.

opensm-boot / srp-boot does a one-shot run on opensm/srp-tools, which is
enough for the mount / lvm init scripts to discover the lun, and then
the "normal" opensm/srp scripts get run later in the boot process and
start the deamons up properly.

There is probably a better way to do this now, but I don't have access
to a sid system with srp luns.

As an aside, I made some fixes a while ago to the srptools init scripts
(it is in the srptools tree in svn/trunk). It would be good to get those
uploaded.

Cheers,

Guy


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