Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: cupsd wont start on boot.

[Mark Haney]

Neil Stone wrote:
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> Paul de Vrieze wrote:
>> On Saturday 05 August 2006 07:50, Duncan wrote:
>>> If it's the exact same line both places, one works, the other doesn't,
>>> it's almost certainly due to the difference in environment.  The
>>> environment passed to the one started from initscript will be rather more
>>> limited than a fully interactive bash prompt environment.
>>>
>>> I'd suggest you put a debug statement in the initscript, right before the
>>> command executes, that prints the environment to one file and the exported
>>> environment to another.  Diff those against the same output from the
>>> command line that works right, and you'll have a good start on tracking
>>> down the culprit, since you'll have all the differences nicely listed, in
>>> ordered to check.
>> Additionally many init scripts use start-stop-daemon with the --quiet command
>> line option. This suppresses all output from the command used. In this case
>> we would like to see this output so remove "--quiet" from the init script.
>>
>> Paul
>>
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> what happens if you invoke the init script directly, ie not running the
> commands contained within the script...
>
> /etc/init.d/cupsd start
>
> for example
>

If I invoke as root, I get nothing, not even a 'Child exited' error. 
But it doesn't start.  I'm going to remove the --quiet option and try it 
and see how it goes.


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