[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#652337: initscripts: rcS(5) unclear about default value for RAMTMP

[Roger Leigh]

tags 652337 + pending
thanks

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:22:30PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> 
> The rcS(5) manpage indicates that the default value for RAMTMP is "yes".
> 
> But this is misleading: if you do set a value to RAMTMP in
> /etc/default/rcS, a "no" value is assumed, as is clear from
> /lib/init/vars.sh.
> 
> It’s true that on new installs RAMTMP is currently set to "yes" in
> /etc/default/rcS (see /usr/share/initscripts/default.rcS and
> #630615). But older installations have no value set for RAMTMP, and for
> them the default is "no".

This is now described in the manual page.


Regards,
Roger

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