lighttpd: Questionable use of invoke-rc.d

Package: init-system-helpers; Maintainer for init-system-helpers is Devuan Dev Team <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for init-system-helpers is src:init-system-helpers.

Reported by: Opty <opty77@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 12:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian, moreinfo

Merged with 881, 883, 884

Found in version init-system-helpers/1.65.2devuan1

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Opty <opty77@gmail.com>, 882@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: bug#882: /etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd: Questionable use of
 invoke-rc.d
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Opty,

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 02:41:25PM +0200, Opty wrote:
> Package: lighttpd
> Version: 1.4.69-1
> 
> /etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd uses invoke-rc.d to notify lighttpd to
> reopen logs but it doesn't work when using
> policy-rcd-declarative-deny-all so shouldn't the logrotate
> configuration snippet use rather 'service' ?

Possibly, but I am not sure. Certainly all the other /etc/logrotate.d examples I
can find use invoke-rc.d. It may be to prevent rotation in chroots and the like
when it would fail.

However, I am sure that lighttpd isn't forked in Devuan and so this should be
reported directly to Debian's BTS.

Thanks

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #882 /etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd: Questionable use of invoke-rc.d

Devuan bug report logs - #882
/etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd: Questionable use of invoke-rc.d