[ATrpms-devel] lirc-0.8.1-62_cvs20060930: where does /etc/rc.d/init.d/lircd come from?

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 09:30:10PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/lircd doesn't work for me.  The problem is to do with
> module loading.

http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/atrpms-users/2006-June/005448.html

Maybe a commented entry should be added to the package.

> Probably not its fault.  But when I looked at it, I came up with
> another question.
> 
> Both lircd and irexec are invoked through the "daemon" command.  This 
> seems redundant since lircd daemonizes itself (by default) and irexec does 
> so optionally.  Is there any reason for this redundancy?  Does it not just 
> add a slight bit of overhead and confusion?

"daemon" *requires* the called process to be already a daemon, there
is no redundancy.

> I think that either the "daemon" commands should be eliminated (--deamon 
> should be added to the irexec command).

There already is --daemon with irexec (???).

> Or perhaps --no-daemon should be added to the lircd commands.  (The
> daemon command may have an advantage because it does a chroot.)

???

> I don't think that init.d/lircd is part of the lirc project code because I 
> don't see it in http://lirc.cvs.sourceforge.net/lirc/

True.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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