Re: webmin rpm and chkconfig...

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

jam...@te... wrote:

> Hi Jamie,
> 
> I am trying to build a trimmed down RPM of webmin for our internal purposes
> and came across
> what I believe is a discrepency (or maybe its not).    In the webmin init
> script you have the following
> comments:
> 
>      # chkconfig: 235 99 00
>      # description: Start or stop the Webmin server
> 
> Which of course are for the chkconfig program.  What I find strange is that
> your RPM's specfile does
> not use the chkconfig command to setup the sybolic links for the init
> script but instead do these
> as files that are part of the package.  Furthermore in the spec file  you
> are setting the init scripts
> links to have it run at different priority (or order) than you have in your
> chkconfig entry in the
> init script:
> 
>      /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S99webmin
>      /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99webmin
>      /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99webmin
>      /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K10webmin
>      /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K10webmin
>      /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/K10webmin
> 
> Furthermore, and I just noticed this, you have kill scripts in the same run
>       level as your start scripts.
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
>       - Which priorities do you consider correct (I am assuming the links
>       in the spec file, but
>          I figure I would ask)?


The links in the spec file are the correct priorities.. I will fix the init
script to match them.


>       - Why don't you use chkconfig?  I will most definately alter the
>       package for my
>         purposes to use it, but I was wondering if you had a reason?


Just because it is not always available. It seems to be a redhat-specific thing,
so I didn't want to depend upon its existance.


>       - Did you really mean to have kill and start scripts in the same run
>       level?  I thought the
>          kill scripts belonged in the run levels where you don't want
>       webmin to run, such
>          as 0, 1, and 6.


To be honest, I'm not really sure about that! Aren't the K scripts for a runlevel
run when leaving it? So if you booted to runlevel 5, S99webmin would be run at boot time..
When shutting down (and so leaving runlevel 5) K10webmin would be run.

Correct me if I am wrong in my understanding of how init scripts work on shutdown though.

  - Jamie