Re: [gentoo-dev] strange gentoo shutdown sequence

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Monday 03 May 2004 08:15, Olivier Crête 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.
>
> 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..

I agree, I think we should enhance the init scripts with another function 
that can check the status of a daemon (in some way) and as such also 
does not complain when a died daemon needs to be started.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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