Comment 7 for bug 1215330

> It is failing to start because the -i -p and -b attributes defined in init.cfg are being overwritten with "" values in the startup script

I'm sorry, I missed this in my first reading.

However, it also doesn't make sense. I just downloaded and unpacked the package I think you're using:

wget http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/pool/universe/d/darkstat/darkstat_3.0.714+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
ar x darkstat_3.0.714+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
tar zxf data.tar.gz

And ./etc/init.d/darkstat sets a bunch of variables to "", then it does ". $INIT"

Why isn't $INIT overriding the empty strings set in ./etc/init.d/darkstat?

> It appears that several variables defined /etc/darkstat/init.cfg are overridden after importing by /etc/init.d/darkstat

I can't see where this is happening. Could you please upload these two files, verbatim, from your system? Maybe attach them to the bug?