[Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20090407

[Robby Workman]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:54:38 -0300
André Geraldo Vieira <andre.geraldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Em Ter 07 Abr 2009 11:31:27 Robby Workman. Escreveu:
> > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:09:46 +0200
> >
> > Marco Cecchetti <mrc.ildp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2009/4/7 Robby Workman <rworkman at slackbuilds.org>
> > >
> > > > Tue Apr  7 03:08:45 UTC 2009
> > > > network/pdnsd: Removed - according to Andre Geraldo Vieira (the
> > > > maintainer),
> > > >  this is non-functional, even though it does build a working
> > > > package. If/when we figure out what's wrong, we'll add it again.
> > >
> > > Proxy server with fixed connection to isp's dns looks to work;
> > > cache is stored and with isp's dns down it looks to work fine.
> > >
> > > Please, can you share info about the malfunction?
> >
> > I don't know specifics - I just acted on behalf of the maintainer.
> > Since I don't use pdnsd, I thought he'd likely know better than me.
> > I'm CC'ing him on this thread to make sure he sees it.
> >
> > -RW
> Hi Robby, Marco.
> Sorry, I don't speak English.
> In the pdnsd-1.2.7/src/rc/README file from pdnsd-1.2.7 source.
> You can read 
> "
> Slackware
> ---------
> A Slackware start-up script rc.pdnsd was contributed by Nikola Kotur 
> <kotnik at ns-linux.org>.
> His comments were:
> 
> Slackware uses traditional BSD style init script layout instead of
> SystemV style startup scripts.  So I adjusted the start-up script for
> pdnsd, and now it can be used with Slackware 9.1 distribution, and
> probably with all the others.
> 
> Additional info:
> 1) put these lines in the /etc/rc.d/rc.M:
>         if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pdnsd ]; then
>                 . /etc/rc.d/rc.pdnsd start
>         fi
> 
> 2) put these lines in the /etc/rc.d/rc.6 and /etc/rc.d/rc.K:
>         if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pdnsd ]; then
>                 . /etc/rc.d/rc.pdnsd stop
>         fi
> "
> After the package installation, during the shutdown process the
> following message appears:
> "INIT: No more processes left in this runlevel.."
> And the system is locked.
> 
> After submitting the package is that I realized this problem, just
> get hung up when my machine.
> But I think Mr. Robby Workman did fix the problem for me. :)
> Because when the package downloaded from the instruction in README 
> slackbuild.org were: 
> "
> Add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
>         if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pdnsd ]; then
>                 /etc/rc.d/rc.pdnsd start
>         fi
> 
> Add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown
>         if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pdnsd ]; then
>                 /etc/rc.d/rc.pdnsd stop
>         fi
> "
> And it works.
> Package now works correctly. How should I proceed to submit the
> package again?


I'll take care of it - I saved the one that was "deleted" from the
repo :-)

Please be sure to submit the changed init script guidelines to upstream
pdnsd - otherwise, they'll get lots of bug reports from users about it.

-RW
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