ietd 'config' required argument not used by init script

[Pierre Amadio]

This is related to onerirc:
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

ubuntu@iscsi-target:~$ apt-cache policy iscsitarget
iscsitarget:
  Installed: 1.4.20.2-5ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.4.20.2-5ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.4.20.2-5ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I try to make a simple iscsi target but fail to do so with the following steps:

sudo apt-get install iscsitarget
Change /etc/default/iscsitarget so that ISCSITARGET_ENABLE=true
sudo apt-get install iscsitarget-dkms
sudo /etc/init.d/iscsitarget start
sudo touch /etc/ietd.conf

Add a the following in /etc/ietd.conf:

Target iqn.2012-02.org.sxb.iscsi-target:san1
  Lun 0
  Path=/dev/sdb
  Type=blockio
  Alias sanalias

sudo /etc/init.d/iscsitarget restart

I experience no error message, but /proc/net/iet/volume is still empty.

I then look at /etc/init.d/iscsitarget to try to start the service manually

sudo modprobe -q crc32c
sudo modprobe iscsi_trgt
sudo ietd -f -d 7

Still nothing in /proc/net/iet/volume

However, it works if i launched the daemon with the -c option:

sudo ietd -f -d 7 -c /etc/ietd.conf

According to man (8) ietd:
      -c filename, --config=filename
              Specify configuration file, default is /etc/ietd.conf

However, i m afraid there is no actual default set in the code.
Excerpt from ietd.c :

        {"config", required_argument, 0, 'c'},

Looks to me the man page should be changed not to mention any default config option and the init script should start the daemon with the -c /etc/ietd.conf option.