Bug#1055645: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: Please take over mdadm init script

[Lorenzo]

Hi,

On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 13:27:58 +0100
tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> wrote:


> Hi,
> but the file is still referenced in /etc/init.d/mdadm
> 
> # grep /etc/default/mdadm /etc/init.d/mdadm*
> /etc/init.d/mdadm:DEBIANCONFIG=/etc/default/mdadm
> 
> from the 5 variables set in /etc/default/mdadm:
> 
> AUTOCHECK, AUTOSCAN, VERBOSE at a first glance are ignored
> 
>  START_DAEMON has already been moved to the initscript
>  so that from the /etc/default/mdadm you can only turn
> the initscript off.                                  
> 
> I would propose to move  DAEMON_OPTIONS="--syslog"
> to the initscript so that we can forget about
> /etc/default/mdadm.	 

I'm attaching the amended patch so that the script works without
/etc/default/mdadm, but it still includes the file if it's there

> 
> The cronjob that will be removed soon is still a problem as it checks
> the arrays periodically

I'm not saying that it's not a problem, but I think it's a separate bug.
Also, before doing any attempts on this, Matthew has to say if he's ok
with maintaining cronjobs in this package and if yes, how this should
be done.

Best,
Lorenzo


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