[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#816503: invoke-rc.d: action reopen-logs is unknown, but proceeding anyway.

[Florent B]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I have a problem on Wheezy servers using logrotate & php5-fpm packages.

I think the problem is in /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d file, that's why I report it for sysv-rc package.

When we use a custom /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d script like this one:

#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = "service-to-not-restart-automatically" ]
then
        exit 101
else
        exit 0
fi

PHP5-FPM logrotate action is reporting an error :

invoke-rc.d: action reopen-logs is unknown, but proceeding anyway.

I think this code in /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d is causing this :

## sanity checks and just-in-case warnings.
case ${ACTION} in
    start|stop|force-stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status)
        ;;
    *)
        if test "x${POLICYHELPER}" != x && test -x "${POLICYHELPER}" ; then
            printerror action ${ACTION} is unknown, but proceeding anyway.
        fi
        ;;
esac

Why printing an error if policy helper script is executable ? I don't understand the logic.

Action "reopen-logs" is handled by php5-fpm init script.

Versions of packages :

$ apt-cache policy php5-fpm logrotate
php5-fpm:
  Installed: 5.4.45-0+deb7u2
  Candidate: 5.4.45-0+deb7u2
logrotate:
  Installed: 3.8.1-4
  Candidate: 3.8.1-4

I hope I gived enough information about this "bug".

Tell me if some information are missing.

Thank you.

Florent

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.9
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysv-rc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.49
ii  insserv                1.14.0-5
ii  sysvinit-utils         2.88dsf-41+deb7u1

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian8+deb7u1

Versions of packages sysv-rc suggests:
pn  bum           <none>
pn  sysv-rc-conf  <none>

-- no debconf information