Bug#599394: init script logging broken with parallel booting

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2010-10-07 Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav.maslovski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: exim4-base
> Version: 4.72-1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: squeeze sid

> The approach to log the boot process that is currently implemented in
> the init script of exim4 is inappropriate for parallel booting
> (which is, by the way, the default for squeeze).

> This is what I usually get in the boot log:
> ...
> Thu Oct  7 12:34:55 2010: Starting MTA:Starting GNUstep distributed object mapper: gdomap.
> Thu Oct  7 12:34:56 2010: CST Solver Server 2008 started successfully.
> Thu Oct  7 12:34:56 2010: Starting mouse interface server: gpm.
> Thu Oct  7 12:34:56 2010: Starting internet superserver: inetd.
> Thu Oct  7 12:34:56 2010: Loading cpufreq kernel modules...done
> (acpi-cpufreq).
> Thu Oct  7 12:34:58 2010: Starting Music Player Daemon: mpd.
> Thu Oct  7 12:34:58 2010:  exim4.
> ...
[...]

Hello,
is there a commonly used solution yet? The examples in latest policy
basically work the same way.

cu andreas