[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#568181: hostapd: It's probably not a bug

[Alexander Osmukhin]

Package: hostapd
Severity: normal


Please read the comments in /etc/default/hostapd. You're supposed to enter the DAEMON_CONF value there. I've edited  the /etc/init.d/hostapd script instead.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (625, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (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/dash

Versions of packages hostapd depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8o-2   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

hostapd recommends no packages.

hostapd suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/init.d/hostapd changed:
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON_SBIN=/usr/sbin/hostapd
DAEMON_DEFS=/etc/default/hostapd
DAEMON_CONF=/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
NAME=hostapd
DESC="advanced IEEE 802.11 management"
PIDFILE=/var/run/hostapd.pid
[ -x "$DAEMON_SBIN" ] || exit 0
[ -s "$DAEMON_DEFS" ] && . /etc/default/hostapd
[ -r "$DAEMON_CONF" ] || exit 0
DAEMON_OPTS="-B -P $PIDFILE $DAEMON_OPTS $DAEMON_CONF"
.. /lib/lsb/init-functions
case "$1" in
  start)
	log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
	start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --quiet --exec "$DAEMON_SBIN" \
		--pidfile "$PIDFILE" -- $DAEMON_OPTS >/dev/null
	log_end_msg "$?"
	;;
  stop)
	log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
	start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --quiet --exec "$DAEMON_SBIN" \
		--pidfile "$PIDFILE"
	log_end_msg "$?"
	;;
  reload)
  	log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME"
	start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --exec "$DAEMON_SBIN" \
		--pidfile "$PIDFILE"
	log_end_msg "$?"
	;;
  restart|force-reload)
  	$0 stop
	sleep 8
	$0 start
	;;
  status)
	status_of_proc "$DAEMON_SBIN" "$NAME"
	exit $?
	;;
  *)
	N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
	echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload|reload|status}" >&2
	exit 1
	;;
esac
exit 0


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