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NAME
/etc/service-policy.d/*.pol - configuration for policy-rc.d-declarative
SYNOPSIS
/etc/service-policy.d/*.pol
DESCRIPTION
Files in the directory /etc/service-policy.d are opened and parsed by the
policy-rc.d-declarative script. Lines should have exactly three fields of data which are
separated by whitespace; any trailing whitespace is ignored.
All files are opened in order by file name; following that, all rules in a file are
evaluated in order.
The first rule that matches a given service with a given action is applied. All further
rules are ignored.
If no rule matches a given service with a given action, the default is to exit with exit
state 100, which signals "unknown initscript id" to the calling update-rc.d program.
FIELDS
The file contains the following fields:
1. The service(s) to which this should apply. This should be a perl regular expression
that matches the init scripts for which this policy should be used.
2. The action(s) which invoke-rc.d wants to take. For more information on the available
actions, see /usr/share/doc/init-system-helpers/README.policy-rc.d.gz.
3. The policy to apply to this action. Available policies are:
allow
Allow the action that invoke-rc.d wants to perform without modification
deny
Do not allow the action.
restart-ignore
Replace the action that invoke-rc.d wants to perform by "restart stop". That is,
try a restart action first; if that fails for some reason, try a stop action.
Note that at the time of this writing, not all PID1 implementations support this.
Notably, the systemd version of invoke-rc.d does not support overriding actions.
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/init-system-helpers/README.policy-rc.d.gz, policy-rc.d-declarative(1)
2020-11-23 SERVICE-POLICY.D(5)