Re: [gentoo-dev] Starting/stopping services

[Dylan Carlson <absinthe@pobox.com>]

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 03:15 pm, J Robert Ray wrote:

> This sounds like something that would be better solved by breaking the
> script up into multiple init scripts for each background process, and
> then set the dependencies as needed.
>
> Are you referring to a package in portage or a custom job?
>

Either case...  One example, perhaps a stinky example (but I'll use it 
anyway) is the vmware startup script.  

IMHO, breaking some of these things up into multiple scripts is 
overcomplicating it.  Especially if things need to fire in a certain 
order.   It would be easier for me to just have one script  to zap as 
either started or stopped.... zapping started would allow me to simply 
shut down any parts that happen to be running without hunting around for 
PID's.  

Although I can see where splitting it into several separate init scripts 
would give more granular control, sure.

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com]

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