Subject: bug#802: openrc: openrc-run: to many broken options

From: Lorietta <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:32:19 +1100

Package: openrc
Version: 0.45.2-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email-masked]

Dear Maintainer,

When writing an init script with the openrc-run interpreter, and the
start-stop-daemon supervisor (used by default),
you cannot pass options such as 'output_log' and 'error_log',
because the Debian version of start-stop-daemon is incompatible with the
start-stop-daemon version from Gentoo.
openrc-run tries to pass options to start-stop-daemon that are known in
Gentoo,
but not understood by Debian's start-stop-daemon.

in this case, '--stdout' and '--stderror'. The Gentoo's start-stop-daemon
'--stderror' option has no equivalent in Debian,
the '--stdout' option can be replaced with '-O' or '--output'.
the same problem can be observed when using other options.
here is the complete list:
'output_log' (can be replaced with '--output' in Debian)
'error_log' (has no equivalent in Debian)
'output_logger' (has no equivalent in Debian)
'error_logger' (has no equivalent in Debian)
'capabilities' (has no equivalent in Debian)
For example, service 'myservice' with 'output_log=/var/log/myservice.log':

$ rc-service myservice start

Starting myservice ...

start-stop-daemon: unrecognized option "--stdout"

Try "start-stop-daemon --help" for more information.

Failed to start myservice

ERROR: myservice failed to start

I did not submit this bug to the Debian BTS because Debian has officially
switched to systemd
and I doubt that this bug report will be noticed there.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)
Release: 5
Codename: daedalus
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: OpenRC (via /run/openrc), PID 1: openrc-init

Versions of packages openrc depends on:
ii  insserv      1.24.0-1
ii  libaudit1    1:3.0.9-1
ii  libc6        2.36-9+deb12u3
ii  libeinfo1    0.45.2-2
ii  libpam0g     1.5.2-6+deb12u1
ii  librc1       0.45.2-2
ii  libselinux1  3.4-1+b6

openrc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages openrc suggests:
pn  policycoreutils  <none>
ii  sysvinit-core    3.06-4devuan3

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/init.d/agetty [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/init.d/agetty'
/etc/init.d/cgroups [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/init.d/cgroups'
/etc/init.d/rc [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/init.d/rc'
/etc/init.d/rcS [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/init.d/rcS'
/etc/init.d/savecache [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/init.d/savecache'
/etc/rc.conf changed [not included]

-- debconf-show failed