[maemo-developers] /etc/init.d/ssh stop does not stop ssh on the N900

[From: Dieter Plaetinck]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:21:37 +0200
Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote:

> ext Joerg Reisenweber <joerg at openmoko.org> writes:
> 
> > If the script doesn't work as everybody would expect, then it
> > shouldn't be there at all.
> 
> It's a 'conffile', so it will be left on the device even if you remove
> the package.  Also, you can't really change it by putting a newer
> version in your package since the user might decline to have his
> version overwritten.  You would need to put code into your postinst
> to fix up anything that wrong with a conffile without destroying user
> changes.
> 
> It's generally a bad idea to put significant magic into conffiles, for
> these reasons.  Files in /etc/init.d/ are probably the worst critters
> in this regard.

init scripts are config files? what?
I agree with what Joerg said. init files are for
stopping/starting/reloading/.. daemons (not for configuration), and they
should just work.

Dieter