Bug#338966: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#338966: initscripts: "Usage" error message displays during bootup

[Rick Friedman]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 08:51 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I checked the old version, and luckily, only the .sh scripts are
> called without the 'start' argument.  Try this patch:

Unfortunately, I'm a relative newbie and I'm really not certain how to
apply this patch.

> Index: /etc/init.d/rcS
> ===================================================================
> --- /etc/init.d/rcS (revisjon 21)
> +++ /etc/init.d/rcS (arbeidskopi)
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
>                         (
>                                 trap - INT QUIT TSTP
>                                 set start
> -                               . $i
> +                               . $i start
>                         )
>                         ;;
>                 *)
> 
> 
> But I seriously recommend upgrading sysv-rc to the latest version and
> allowing it to update /etc/init.d/rcS and /etc/init.d/rc.

Hmmm... the day I updated to the latest version of initscripts, I also
updated sysv-rc (via apt). According to what I see, the latest version
of sysv-rc in sid is version 2.86.ds1-5. 

Rick