July 2009
In SuSE
initscripts,
$START_DAEMON $START_DAEMON_FLAG $DAEMON_USER $DAEMON -d
may be called.
Without porting effort, this will fail on Ubuntu unless lsb
is installed.
Even then it will still fail, because inside the lsb
function start_daemon
sourced from /lib/lsb/init-functions
, there is the statement
exec="$1"; shift <snip> /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel $nice --quiet --exec $exec --oknodo --pidfile "$pidfile" -- "$@"
so --exec $exec
becomes --exec $START_DAEMON_FLAG
while it would need to be $DAEMON
(full path).
Simplest solution is to replace the indirection via lsb with a start-stop-daemon line proper.