On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 11:05, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
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> On Monday 03 May 2004 10:50, Allen D Parker wrote:
> > We can actually probably do this in bash fairly simply (although
> > unless each service is started in sequence or in a seperate
> > shellspace, it might be a problem) parallel start + bash variables =
> > nastiness.
> >
> > for each initscript SVCNAME="apache2"
> > then in the actual runscript, something like this would do just fine
> > (imho) for 99% of what would need to be supported:
> >
> > SVCHOME=`whereis ${SVCNAME} | cut -d " " -f 2`
> > if ${SVCNAME} != `ps aux | grep ${SVCHOME}`; then
> > /etc/init.d/${SVCNAME} zap &&
> > /etc/init.d/${SVCNAME} start
> > else
> > SVC_STATUS="alive"
> > fi
> 
> I was more thinking of providing an extra function (say "status()") that 
> would have a positive result if the service is actually running and a 
> negative result if it is not. The handler script/program should then be 
> able to handle this function.
> 

There is one that can be overridden.  Also have a look at
/lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh - yeah, its crude, its very alpha (did
it in a night some months back), but it was supposed to be generic
daemon handling, with checking of pid, etc.


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa