Re: [gentoo-dev] strange gentoo shutdown sequence

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

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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.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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