On Monday 18 August 2008 15:33:03 Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
Hi,
it seems that there are many developers out there which have misunderstood the term
if intended use `$null'
Normally the special system facility `$null' should only be used if the you really want an empty Required-Stop and/or Should-Stop tag. In other words the most developers may *not* want to use `$null'.
Just to underline this: anything that has it's binaries below /usr will at least need $remote_fs during start _and_ stop. (otherwise for example killproc would not find the binary it wants to kill and fail to stop the service ...)
E.g. if in Required-Start the system facility `$user_fs' is found then it is a bug to use `$null' in Required-Stop case. The same holds true for Should-Start and Should-Stop.
Most users want to use for Required-Stop the same system facilities and other provides as found in Required-Start. The same holds true for Should-Stop.
There are some cases in which `$null' makes sense, e.g. if in the Start case provides are used which simply do nothing in stop case.
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