/etc/init.d/kannel depends on nonexistant /var/run/kannel directory

[Matt Wilson]

Binary package hint: kannel

The /etc/init.d/kannel script tries to put files inside /var/run/kannel. That directory doesn't exist and gets erased every time.

I suggest adding something sort of like this into the /etc/init.d/kannel script:

# Create the PIDFILES dir if it doesn't exist.
test ! -d $PIDFILES && mkdir $PIDFILES && chown kannel $PIDFILES

This is how I have fixed the problem on my boxes, anyway.

[David Cordero (david.cordero)]

I have 2 problems that i have no idea how to solve, one with linda with a .png image, that tell me:

W: kannel-docs; File /usr/share/doc/kannel-docs/alligata/licences.png is considered to be an extra license file.
 The file shown above is considered to be another license file, where
 as the license for a package should be contained in the copyright
 file, which should be installed into /usr/share/doc/<pkg>.

And the other with lintian:

E: kannel source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.guess 2003-05-19
N:
N: The referenced file has a time stamp older than year 2004 and the
N: package does not build-depend on autotools-dev or automake and
N: therefore apparently does not update it. This usually means that the
N: source package will not work correctly on all currently released
N: architectures.
N:
E: kannel source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.sub 2003-05-09

[Matt Wilson (mw44118)]

Hi David,

Do we need to fix your problems before we fix my problem?

By the way, I've been poking around to see how other init scripts deal with the fact that /var/run is flushed after every reboot.

This is how /etc/init.d/klogd makes sure that it has a subdirectory in /var/run:

case "$1" in
  start)
    log_begin_msg "Starting kernel log daemon..."
    # create klog-writeable pid and fifo directory
    mkdir -p /var/run/klogd
    chown klog:klog /var/run/klogd
    mkfifo -m 700 $kmsgpipe
    chown klog:klog $kmsgpipe

And this is how /etc/init.d/slony1 does it:

prepare_start() {
    mkdir -p /var/run/slony1 \
    && chown postgres:postgres /var/run/slony1/ \
    && chmod 2775 /var/run/slony1/
}

So, it does not look like a standard method exists. I would like to get some really good sysadmins to help us with this. There really should be a standard way to do this.

Matt

[David Cordero (david.cordero)]

I have solve the lintian error, with a new Build-Depend to autotools-dev. (thanks Luca)

About the linda's error, i think that linda show the warning message because take the license.png as a license file, although is only an image.

Matt i'm using the script that you wrote in the bug report, i`m adding this to /etc/init.d/kannel file:

# Create the PIDFILES dir if it doesn't exist.
test ! -d $PIDFILES && mkdir $PIDFILES && chown kannel $PIDFILES

if that ok, isn't it?

[Matt Wilson (mw44118)]

Yeah, I think my way will work fine. And if not, we'll hear about it quickly!

:)

[David Cordero (david.cordero)]

Building with pbuilder in a hardy, show a lot of warning like:

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/kannel-extras/usr/lib/kannel/test/test_smsc shouldn't be linked with libmysqlclient_r.so.15 (it uses none of its symbols).
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/kannel/usr/bin/wmlsc shouldn't be linked with libnsl.so.1 (it uses none of its symbols).
etc...

all of them are "it uses none of its symbols" messages.

I think that probably a gcc bad option that create a bad linker process.

[David Cordero (david.cordero)]

Complete log of warnings

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

* Add 10_create_pidfile in debian/patches/00list, otherwise your patch won't be applied
* Homepage field should be listed in Source stanza and removed elsewhere

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kannel - 1.4.1-2ubuntu1

---------------
kannel (1.4.1-2ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  [ David Cordero ]
  * Bump Standard-Versions to 3.7.3.
  * Don't ignore `make distclean' errors, test for Makefile presence instead.
  * Update deprecated ${Source-Version} substvar to {binary:Version} in
    /debian/control kannel-extras.
  * Modify Homepage entries on /debian/control to new standard.
  * Changed section from kannel-docs to doc on /debian/control.
  * Added Build-Depend to autotools-dev needed.
  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField spec.

  [ Luca Falavigna ]
  * debian/kannel.init: create /var/run/kannel directory if not present.
    Ubuntu mounts /var/run on tmpfs and it will be cleaned each reboot.
    This fix LP: #187356.
  * debian/control: build-depend on libssl-dev (>= 0.9.8).

 -- Luca Falavigna <email address hidden> Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:01:47 +0100