[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#703844: initscripts: Should document NETDOWN in default /etc/default/halt file

[Christian Perrier]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-41
Severity: normal

I spent some time to day setting up a build server that I could wake
remotely by Wake-on-LAN.

I discovered that, while I did setup my LAN card to support WOL
(through "ethtool -s eth0 wol g"), WOL wasn't working because the
interface card is brought down before halt.

/etc/init.d/halt has a mechanism to avoid this and does indeed
"simply" require that "NETDOWN=no" is set in /etc/default/halt

Would it be possible on indeed document that variable in this file.
I'm not sure why the default is to bring the interface down but at
least it could allow people to more easily learn about this possibility.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils       8.13-3.3
ii  debianutils     4.3.4
ii  libc6           2.13-38
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian9
ii  mount           2.20.1-5.3
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-41
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-41

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.42.5-1.1
ii  psmisc     22.20-1

initscripts suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/rcS changed [not included]

-- no debconf information