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authorRoy Marples <roy@marples.name>2008-09-19 11:32:24 +0000
committerRoy Marples <roy@marples.name>2008-09-19 11:32:24 +0000
commitdcc4aa131cc278a830f922cdfed7999abd5d05f5 (patch)
treeee3e080409b151d9c2c3de7590825460a0d37f89
parent6b3d8cf598f6bfcdc44dc8fede1827f469b72ead (diff)
Document the limitation of symlinking services outside of the service directory, Gentoo #237263.
-rw-r--r--man/runscript.810
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>