From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16219 invoked from network); 3 May 2004 06:45:31 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 3 May 2004 06:45:31 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BKXCk-0000bU-VK for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 06:45:30 +0000 Received: (qmail 22985 invoked by uid 50004); 3 May 2004 06:45:28 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 15230 invoked from network); 3 May 2004 06:45:26 +0000 From: John Nilsson To: Olivier =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAte?= Cc: gentoo development In-Reply-To: <1083564905.8372.3.camel@TesterTop.tester.ca> References: <20040502173223.GA7160@linux1.home> <1083561023.5397.42.camel@newkid.milsson.nu> <1083564905.8372.3.camel@TesterTop.tester.ca> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-L/4hmVGgwgpnZkdDsGHg" Message-Id: <1083566796.5401.54.camel@newkid.milsson.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 08:46:36 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] strange gentoo shutdown sequence X-Archives-Salt: c4df1639-c31f-440b-afd2-435faad95ac3 X-Archives-Hash: 66f065006b420284d930d90ee234c8d0 --=-L/4hmVGgwgpnZkdDsGHg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I remember a time when gentoo (enoch?) used djb's daemontools to manages services. Why was this changed? -John On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 08:15, Olivier Cr=EAte wrote: > 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. >=20 >=20 > 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.. --=-L/4hmVGgwgpnZkdDsGHg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAlerL0GAlrvwEkG4RAgIOAJ4zqRQQtea0X8tSVMCclCuOGyckmACcDL5I esXojwuSP1O7vGi9HOKiHws= =ITuz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-L/4hmVGgwgpnZkdDsGHg--