Problem with init script of tinc in debian squeeze

[Graeme Tattersall]

On 15/09/2011 22:50, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> I am running Tinc on debian squeeze, when I reboot, the tincd daemon
> is not running at all, despite having the right link in rc2.d:
> 
> root at box /etc/rc2.d [9]# ls S03tinc*
> S03tinc
> 
> When I do /etc/init.d/tinc start, it works fine.



Afaik this is related to Debian having changed the way it starts it's
init-script services from Squeeze onwards.

  see:  http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot

You need to make the tinc init script into a LSB compliant script.
Particularly, you need to add this kind of text at the top of the init
file.

--- BEGIN CUT ---
#! /bin/sh
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          tinc
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $network
# Should-Start:      $syslog $named
# Should-Stop:       $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start tinc daemons
# Description:       Create a file $NETSFILE (/etc/tinc/nets.boot),
#                    and put all the names of the networks in there.
#                    These names must be valid directory names under
#                    $TCONF (/etc/tinc). Lines starting with a # will be
#                    ignored in this file.
### END INIT INFO

--- END CUT ---

When this has been inserted into the /etc/init.d/tinc file, you can then
put tinc into the boot-sequence using insserv (which replaces update-rc.d)


host# insserv tinc


Hope this helps

Graeme