insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty

init.d, linux, service, suse, sysv

Solution

Make sure your dashes are what is expected. In some copy-pasting I was doing, the interpreter wasn't seeing the expected character. So literally, this

# Required­Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $time 
# Required­Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog $time 
# Should­Start:      $network $named slapd autofs ypbind nscd nslcd 
# Should­Stop:       $network $named slapd autofs ypbind nscd nslcd

became this:

# Required-­Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $time 
# Required­-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog $time 
# Should­-Start:      $network $named slapd autofs ypbind nscd nslcd 
# Should-­Stop:       $network $named slapd autofs ypbind nscd nslcd

The first set I copied from a pdf that contained an apparently non-printable character. I manually typed in the - and it worked.

Problem

In the /etc/init.d/myservice script i have the following lines ``` ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: myserviced # Required-Start: $syslog # Required-Stop: $syslog # Should-Start: # Should-Stop: # Default-Start: # Default-Stop: # Short-Description: # Description: Bring up/down service ### END INIT INFO ``` Inspite of that the following error message is omitted while execting comman **/sbin/chkconfig --add myserviced ``` insserv: script jexec is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: script jexec is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: script jexec is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: script jexec is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: script jexec is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: script jexec is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: script jexec is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: script jexec is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: script jexec is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. insserv: script jexec is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. myserviced 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off ``` I had read the post Incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing valid name for `Provides:' please add. But was of no help. This error occurs on SUSE 11 but not on Rehat-6

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