initd-lint(1) General Commands Manual initd-lint(1)

initd-lint - A linter for openrc init files shipped with Alpine Linux

initd-lint <initd...>

initd-lint is a linter for openrc init files shipped with Alpine Linux See alint(5) under the initd-lint section for an explanation of each violation that initd-lint checks for.

initd-lint will print the policy violations found and exit 1, if no violations are found then nothing will be printed and it will exit 0.

initd-lint will print to stdout whenever a policy violation is found in the following format

SEVERITYCERTAINITY:[TAG]:PATH::MSG
  • SEVERITY refers to how severe a violation is, ranging from S to M.
  • CERTAINITY refers to how likely it is not a false positive, ranging from C to P
  • TAG refers to the tag of the violation, see alint(5) for more details.
  • PATH refers to the path given for apkbuild-lint to check.
  • MSG is a short message meant for humans to know what is the violation.

Maintained by Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org>

alint(5)

2024-10-14