[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527846: Bug#527846: consolekit: does not provide a init.d script (how do I restart the daemon?)

[Michael Biebl]

Francesco Poli (t1000) wrote:
> Package: consolekit
> Version: 0.3.0-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Debian Policy 9.3.2 [1] states that
> 
> | Packages that include daemons for system services should place
> | scripts in /etc/init.d to start or stop services at boot time or
> | during a change of runlevel. 
> 
> [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.3.2
> 
> I cannot find any init.d script for /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon,
> which is apparently a daemon which is normally run as root.
> 
> As a consequence, I cannot understand what's the correct strategy
> to restart the daemon, when I need to (e.g.: because checkrestart
> suggests to do so, after a package upgrade).
> 
> Please provide an init.d script, if appropriate, or otherwise
> document the recommended way to restart the daemon.
> Thanks in advance.
> 

console-kit-daemon is a D-Bus activated system service.
If you want to restart it, simply kill the process and D-Bus will launch it on
demand. There is no need for a legacy sysv init script.

It's not recommended to restart console-kit-daemon anyway, as you will lose all
registered sessions.

Hope that answers your questions.

Michael

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