[Splashy-devel] Bug#470816: splashy: runlevel not found when apache2 is restarted from a cron job

[Francois Marier]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.8-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Splashy overrides some lsb logging setting using /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh and that
causes my cron job (which simply restarts Apache every night) to return an error
message that warns about the "runlevel" command not being available.

Here's a patch that fixes that problem by simply skipping the splashy stuff if
both the RUNLEVEL environment variable and the "runlevel" command are missing.

Francois

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools        0.91e             tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc6                  2.7-9             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdirectfb-1.0-0      1.0.1-8           direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.0-1         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.1-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1              4.23-2            File type determination library us
ii  libsplashy1            0.3.8-1           Library to draw splash screen on b
ii  lsb-base               3.2-4             Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

splashy recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information
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--- lsb-base-logging.sh	2008-03-14 08:32:04.000000000 +1300
+++ lsb-base-logging.sh.new	2008-03-14 08:12:53.000000000 +1300
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@
     if [ -z "${RUNLEVEL:-}" ]; then
         # we need only the current level
         RUNLEVEL=`runlevel 2> /dev/null | sed 's/^. //'`
+        if [ -z "$RUNLEVEL" ]; then
+            # if we can't figure out the runlevel (such as when run
+            # from a cron job) then don't do anything with splashy
+            exit $1
+        fi
     fi
 
     STEPS_DIR=/lib/init/rw/splashy