[ofa-general] [PATCH] opensm/opensm.spec: comment out service auto-startup setup

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Sat Sep 13 03:04:45 PDT 2008


Hi Al,

On 00:05 Sat 13 Sep     , Al Chu wrote:
> 
> I *think* I remember how this is handled in Suse now.  It's a different
> set of comments at the top of the init.d script.  In
> opensm/scripts/opensm.init.in I see this:
> 
> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
> # Provides: opensm
> # Required-Start: $syslog
> # Default-Start:  2 3 5
> # Default-Stop: 0 1 6
> # Description:  Manage OpenSM
> ### END INIT INFO

It was my original thought too. But actually those fields are used as
recommendation to chkconfig --add, chkconfig --del, etc..

> I think this indicates that by default opensm should start on boot on
> run levels 2 3 5.  Which I guess is what we don't want.  I'm going to
> take a guess that the following patch will fix the problem.  Patch is
> completely untested (I don't have a suse system).  So hopefully someone
> else can try it out.

The patch is good since it drops unneeded assumption about configured
runlevels. Without this system defaults will be used by chkconfig, and
I guess it is more portable.

Unfortunately it doesn't solve the original issue.

Sasha



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