Lm-sensors's init script sets an unused variable

[MatatTHC]

The latest (natty) init script of lm-sensors sets a variable

PROGRAM=/usr/bin/sensors

at the beginning. but it does not use it.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

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[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

Thanks for reporting this bug, i couldn't find this reference in the natty init scripts - but did find it in the current development version (and debian unstable).

A slightly larger extract shows:

...
PROGRAM=/usr/bin/sensors

test -x $PROGRAM || exit 0
...

This means that the init script is testing that the programme is executable before continuing. I'm not sure i see the issue with this bug. I am going to mark it Incomplete, please provide rational why this is a concern.

Thanks!

[MatatTHC (matatthc)]

I stumbled over this because I compiled lmsensors by myself but wanted to use the provided init script. I changed the PROGRAM variable to the alternative location and expected that it works.

If I set an variable then I expect that it is used. So its not a bug in the sense that it does not work - changing it will not change this situation - but improve the init script source code.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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