[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#388244: initscripts: Network interfaces are always shut down with -i, WOL does not work then

[Markus Raab]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-15
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

WOL (wake up on lan) needs network interfaces not to shut down.
/etc/init.d/halt has -i hardcoded in it.

I would wish, to have a option in
/etc/default/halt
like: 
# Shut down network interfaces, set to "no" to avoid it for WOL
NETDOWN=yes

/etc/init.d/halt needs following changes:
        # Don't shut down network interfaces, when using WOL
        netdown="-i"
        if [ "$NETDOWN" = "no" ]
        then
                netdown=""
        fi

and simple change halt to:
	halt -d -f $netdown $poweroff $hddown

This makes upgrades of /etc/init.d/halt smoothly and this
discussion/comments may let people have a working WOL more easy.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.3
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                  2.17        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs                    1.39-1      ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-15      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.12r-10    Tools for mounting and manipulatin

initscripts recommends no packages.

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