[Pkg-sysvinit-commits] r1227 - in sysvinit/trunk/debian: . sysv-rc/etc/init.d

[pere at alioth.debian.org]

Author: pere
Date: 2008-01-20 10:07:37 +0000 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008)
New Revision: 1227

Modified:
   sysvinit/trunk/debian/changelog
   sysvinit/trunk/debian/sysv-rc/etc/init.d/rc
Log:
  * Improve documentation for the CONCURRENCY option in /etc/init.d/rc
    (Closes: #408491).

Modified: sysvinit/trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- sysvinit/trunk/debian/changelog	2008-01-20 09:56:25 UTC (rev 1226)
+++ sysvinit/trunk/debian/changelog	2008-01-20 10:07:37 UTC (rev 1227)
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
     when changing to use dpkg-query.
   * New patch 83_killall_manref to add references between killall5 and
     pidof, and mention pidof in killall5(8) (Closes: #461160).
+  * Improve documentation for the CONCURRENCY option in /etc/init.d/rc
+    (Closes: #408491).
 
  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at debian.org>  Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:28:07 +0100
 

Modified: sysvinit/trunk/debian/sysv-rc/etc/init.d/rc
===================================================================
--- sysvinit/trunk/debian/sysv-rc/etc/init.d/rc	2008-01-20 09:56:25 UTC (rev 1226)
+++ sysvinit/trunk/debian/sysv-rc/etc/init.d/rc	2008-01-20 10:07:37 UTC (rev 1227)
@@ -20,7 +20,15 @@
 # debug=echo
 
 # Specify method used to enable concurrent init.d scripts.
-# Valid options are 'none', 'shell' and 'startpar'
+# Valid options are 'none', 'shell' and 'startpar'.  To enable the
+# concurrent boot option, the init.d script order must allow for
+# concurrency.  This is not the case with the default boot sequence in
+# Debian as of 2008-01-20.  Before enabling concurrency, one need to
+# check the sequence values of all boot scripts, and make sure only
+# scripts that can be started in parallel have the same sequence
+# number, and that a scripts dependencies have a earlier sequence
+# number. See the insserv package for a away to reorder the boot
+# automatically to allow this.
 CONCURRENCY=none
 
 # Make sure the name survive changing the argument list