[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#669891: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#669891: samba: Samba need to be start manualy at boot

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Michael Biebl (biebl at debian.org):

Thanks for your answer, Michael,


> Imho, a the correct way to fix this, is to fix samba to make it listen
> for network changes (via netlink).

Hmmm, imho a bit invasive and not sure that samba developers want this.


> 
> There is another hack (which of course I don't recommend to be added to
> the samba Debian package):
> 
> Change /etc/init.d/samba and add a call to "nm-online" before you start
> the samba daemons.
> This tool will exit as soon as NetworkManager has established a network
> connection. It will exit after a 30 second timeout, if no connection
> could be established during that time. So your boot won't block
> indefinitely.

Yeah, that's an interesting hack but it should be kept up to the local
admin. I don't think it's worth including it in samba packages and add
a 30s timeout delay to each samba server boot sequence...

> To sum up: I don't plan to add  Provides: $network to the NM init
> script, for the given reasons.
> Also, $network is a virtual facility, which I can't simply modify by
> adding a "Provides: $network" to the LSB header, as insserv doesn't
> allow that.

I was thinking more or less the same but couldn't answer that in the
name of n-m maitnainers.


> 
> So, I'm not sure what to do about this bug in network-manager. If it
> should be re-assigned/closed/...

Either close or mark "wontfix", I would say.


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