On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 07:10, John Nilsson wrote:
> While on the topic:
> 	Is it resonable to patch gdm so that /etc/init.d/xdm is zapped after
> gdm is killed by selecting reboot/shutdown from the login screen?
> It just annoys me that the script errors while shutting down.


This is imho a misfeature of the current initscripts system. The
started-ness of an application is only checked against a file and not
against the current real status. We should probably add a possible
"status()" function to them (that would default to true) that would
check if the service is still running in a custom way.. And zap it if it
isnt... The problem there is with dependencies, should they be stopped
if the service died? But the current system is clearly broken..

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Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer