Bug #166: /etc/cron.daily/*: start-stop-daemon: not found - Dyson - Dyson — Debian GNU/kOpenSolaris

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/etc/cron.daily/*: start-stop-daemon: not found

Added by Igor Pashev almost 11 years ago. Updated about 10 years ago.

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2014-01-09

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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 06:27:25 +0400
From: Cron Daemon <root@bok>
To: root@bok
Subject: Cron <root@bok> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
/etc/cron.daily/exim4-base:
xargs: start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory  
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base exited with return code 123
/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
/etc/cron.daily/man-db: 30: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: start-stop-daemon: not found
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/man-db exited with return code 127

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start-stop-daemon.patch (4.03 KB) start-stop-daemon.patch

Finish up OSsunos support in start-stop-daemon

Justin Maggard, 2014-05-22 07:08 PM

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Updated by Justin Maggard over 10 years ago

File start-stop-daemon.patch start-stop-daemon.patch added

It looks like start-stop-daemon was intentionally left out of the dpkg package, because it does not build on Dyson. The attach patch adds Dyson/Illumos support to start-stop-daemon, which should fix this issue after rebuilding dpkg to include start-stop-daemon.

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Updated by Igor Pashev over 10 years ago

Hi Justin!

start-stop-daemon is actually not useful on Dyson because of SMF.

And yes, it had portability problems and I had no motivation to fix it.

Usage of start-stop-daemon in exim4 cron job is quite trivial and has a fallback:

 88 # run tidydb as Debian-exim:Debian-exim.
 89 if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then
 90   cd $SPOOLDIR/db || exit 1
 91   if ! find $SPOOLDIR/db -maxdepth 1 -name '*.lockfile' -or -name 'log.*' \
 92     -or -type f -printf '%f\0' | \
 93       xargs -0r -n 1 \
 94       start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb \
 95       --chuid Debian-exim:Debian-exim -- $SPOOLDIR > /dev/null; then
 96     # if we reach this, invoking exim_tidydb from start-stop-daemon has
 97     # failed, most probably because of libpam-tmpdir being in use
 98     # (see #373786 and #376165)
 99     find $SPOOLDIR/db -maxdepth 1 -name '*.lockfile' -or -name 'log.*' \
100     -or -type f -printf '%f\0' | \
101     su - --shell /bin/bash \
102          --command "xargs -0r -n 1 /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb $SPOOLDIR > /dev/null" \
103          Debian-exim
104   fi
105 fi

So I haven't decided yet: what to fix :-)

In any way having start-stop-daemon back will not hurt. Thanks!

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