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| author | Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> | 2008-09-19 11:32:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> | 2008-09-19 11:32:24 +0000 |
| commit | dcc4aa131cc278a830f922cdfed7999abd5d05f5 (patch) | |
| tree | ee3e080409b151d9c2c3de7590825460a0d37f89 | |
| parent | 6b3d8cf598f6bfcdc44dc8fede1827f469b72ead (diff) | |
Document the limitation of symlinking services outside of the service directory, Gentoo #237263.
| -rw-r--r-- | man/runscript.8 | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/runscript.8 b/man/runscript.8 index aa8f3f9a..5fe704a8 100644 --- a/man/runscript.8 +++ b/man/runscript.8 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd Jul 03, 2008 +.Dd September 19, 2008 .Dt RUNSCRIPT 8 SMM .Os OpenRC .Sh NAME @@ -442,6 +442,12 @@ show() .Ed .Sh BUGS +Because of the way we load our configuration files and the need to handle +more than one service directory, you can only use symlinks in service +directories to other services in the same directory. +You cannot symlink to a service in a different directory even if it is +another service directory. +.Pp is_older_than should return 0 on success. Instead we return 1 to be compliant with Gentoo baselayout. Users are encouraged to use the is_newer_than function which returns correctly. @@ -455,4 +461,4 @@ Users are encouraged to use the is_newer_than function which returns correctly. .Xr start-stop-daemon 8 , .Xr uname 1 .Sh AUTHORS -.An "Roy Marples" Aq roy@marples.name +.An "Roy Marples" <roy@marples.name> |