Re: [gentoo-dev] Starting/stopping services

[Dylan Carlson <absinthe@pobox.com>]

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 04:09 am, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> this allows for better control/checking via scripts and what not ...
>
> if theres an error/issue stopping a service, i want to know about it ...
> but if you dont care, just zap it ...
> -mike
>
> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 03:56, Matt Tucker wrote:
> > -- will <willg@bluesock.org> spake thusly:
> > > They can't be stopped because there's nothing to be stopped.
> > > However, zap should work.
> > >
> > > If you do "/sbin/runscript", then it'll tell you all about runscript
> > > stuff.
> >
> > Is there any particularly good reason that stop doesn't just do this
> > automatically?

I would like to have the ability to zap a service as "started".  There are 
some scenarios where a startup script will fire off many background 
processes and might fail on one or two of them.  

The script will be flagged as "stopped", but the background processes that 
are running will keep running.  So if there was way to set the script as 
"started", you could do a normal stop to kill off whatever did manage to 
start, instead of manually killing off processes.

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com]

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