From dcc4aa131cc278a830f922cdfed7999abd5d05f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roy Marples Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:32:24 +0000 Subject: Document the limitation of symlinking services outside of the service directory, Gentoo #237263. --- man/runscript.8 | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'man') 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" -- cgit v1.2.3