[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#451269: Bug#451269: samba's package postinst script shouldn't return an error if samba daemon can't be started

[Mathias Gug]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 04:43:11PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Yes that's probably true. Again my aim was to make the package more
> > robust to mis-configuration. OTOH if the configuration is broken we need
> > a way to tell the user that there is a problem.
> 
> Right - unless you have a better way, I think the package state is the way
> to notify the user of this problem.
> 

I agree with you. 

May be we could improve the error message if the samba daemons cannot be
started or use testparm to check the configuration before starting the
daemons.

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Mathias