Bug 230233 – start-stop-daemon: --quiet should take precedence over --test

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2008-06-30 18:37:11 UTC]

--quiet is expected to shut up all non-error output. --test is supposed to print operations that would be taken, but only pretend, and return appropriate error code.

/etc/init.d/xdm init script in baselayout-1.12.11.1 uses it in a following way:

if start-stop-daemon --quiet --test --stop --exec "${myexe}" ; then
                start-stop-daemon --stop --exec "${myexe}" --retry TERM/5/TERM/5 \
                        ${mypidfile:+--pidfile} ${mypidfile} \
                        ${myname:+--name} ${myname}
                retval=$?
        fi

Leading to messages like "Would send signal X to process Y". If --quiet took precedence over --test printing the messages, it would be a lot nicer IMHO.

[Comment 1 Roy Marples 2008-06-30 20:43:13 UTC]

--quiet takes precedence in OpenRC, so this is already fixed,