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From: Burton Samograd <kruhft@kruhft.dyndns.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Starting/stopping services
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:09:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030118180941.GA1741@kruhft.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E29946B.4000004@andrewarbon.co.uk>

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 05:52:43PM +0000, Andy Arbon wrote:
> Presumably the scripts try to terminate the process, find that it's not
> there anymore and exit with an error, but this means that there is no
> way (aside from starting a process with the correct name then letting
> the script kill it) to start the service again until the system
> restarts, which proves very annoying if you're doing anything which
> causes services to die frequently (in my case I'm playing with the
> lircd, which is a little flaky sometimes).

If I understand what you are saying, this can be solved by giving the
init script the zap command (ie. /etc/init.d/lircd zap), which resets
its run state and lets you restart it normally.

-- 
burton samograd
kruhft@kruhft.dyndns.org
http://kruhftwerk.dyndns.org

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-18 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-18 17:52 [gentoo-dev] Starting/stopping services Andy Arbon
2003-01-18 18:09 ` Caleb Shay
2003-01-18 18:09 ` Burton Samograd [this message]
2003-01-18 18:11 ` will
2003-01-21  8:56   ` Matt Tucker
2003-01-21  9:09     ` Mike Frysinger
2003-01-21 15:39       ` Dylan Carlson
2003-01-21 20:15         ` J Robert Ray
2003-01-21 21:15           ` Dylan Carlson

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