[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#501336: Will now activate swapfile swap...done, but there never was one

Sven Joachim svenjoac at gmx.de
Mon Oct 6 17:33:41 UTC 2008


On 2008-10-06 19:14 +0200, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:

> SJ> Yes.  So what?
>
> Well, please don't say "...Done" if indeed the action was not done.
> There should be a failure message.

No, since it is perfectly normal not to have swap files.

> Or say "will now activate swap ... if there are any".

Or, better, deduce from /etc/fstab if there are any swap files and not
print a message at all if there aren't.  That would make some sense (no,
I'm not going to implement this myself).

Sven





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