The on-demand mode was dropped from libuuid in commit ea4f8845f0241c7 "libuuid: don't exec uuidd" You now need systemd (socket activation) to use uuidd on demand. Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@xxxxxxxx> --- misc-utils/uuidd.rc.in | 11 +---------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/misc-utils/uuidd.rc.in b/misc-utils/uuidd.rc.in index 27b75c6..3c5528a 100644 --- a/misc-utils/uuidd.rc.in +++ b/misc-utils/uuidd.rc.in @@ -13,11 +13,6 @@ # set -e -# libuuid is able to execute the uuid daemon on-demand -- in such a case -# the daemon binary must be setuid to an unprivileged user (e.g. uuidd:uuidd). -# [-- kzak Jun 2009] -UUIDD_ON_DEMAND_ONLY="no" - PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin DAEMON=/usr/sbin/uuidd UUIDD_USER=uuidd @@ -36,11 +31,7 @@ case "$1" in mkdir -p $UUIDD_DIR chown -R $UUIDD_USER:$UUIDD_GROUP $UUIDD_DIR fi - if test "$UUIDD_ON_DEMAND_ONLY" = yes; then - echo -n "(on demand only)" - else - start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON - fi + start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON log_end_msg $? ;; stop) -- 2.0.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html