start-stop-daemon does not recognise --start

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:59:50AM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 01:56, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:58:41AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > start-stop-daemon claims to offer --start, but then doesn't accept it:
> > 
> > Actually all the long options seems to be broken.
> 
> Works for me:
> 
[..]
> You probably deselected long options support. Can you post
> your .config?

Yes, you're right.

> Help text needs to be fixed to not show longopts if they are disabled...

Again, you're right. :) That's why I didn't realise the configuration
item wasn't set. 

I ran into this playing with buildroot for the first time. The init
script provided with the dropbear package uses the long options.
Probably it should use the short options, for compatibility.


Thanks

Hamish
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