[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#279297: slapd: Slapd depends on slpd, starts in wrong order

[Russ Allbery]

reassign 279297 slpd
retitle 279297 slpd: should start at 18 to start before slapd
thanks

Hi Ganesan,

About three years ago, there was a discussion of a bug filed against slapd
that it would stall on starting when it was trying to register itself with
slpd since slpd hadn't started yet.  It looks like at the time a consensus
was reached that slpd could start sooner:

> > I'd expect that the delay is because slapd tries to register itself to
> > the slpd. As other services will have the same problem I'd expect that
> > it is a better idea to move slpd to be loaded earlier instead of moving
> > slapd in the startup sequence.
> >
> > Ganesan, what's your stance on this?
> 
> slpd does not have external dependenices, so I see no issues in moving
> slpd to S18 priority. SLP has a concept of a central server called a
> directory agent (DA) (no relation to LDAP) for all service
> advertisements. When slpd starts up it multicasts looking for a DA. DA
> is not mandatory, SLP can work with multicast, but I assume this
> accounts for the delay in startup.

However, it looks like the slpd package was never changed and is still
starting at sequence number 20, one after slapd.

I'm going to reassign this bug to slpd on the assumption that the previous
discussion is correct.  Please let me know if something has since changed.

Thanks!

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>