From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Evzzr-0002a0-Oa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:35:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k09GZ9iZ024237; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:35:09 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k09GWZWv005565 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:32:35 GMT Received: from uberlaptop.development.ltl (logos [195.2.133.104]) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0D590678AA for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:32:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Roy Marples Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] init scripts and custom signals Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:32:28 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <200601091232.32522.uberlord@gentoo.org> <200601090922.59497.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200601090922.59497.vapier@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart17234392.flIjFUxxpg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601091632.32953.uberlord@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: f53e8939-8b83-4639-ae9b-245d48101446 X-Archives-Hash: 34d354cf201b5f793f46e47c9f65cd41 --nextPart17234392.flIjFUxxpg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 09 January 2006 14:22, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 07:32, Roy Marples wrote: > > It's been brought to my attention that dnsmasq and acpid use > > start-stop-daemon to send custom signals such as HUP. While this works > > with baselayout-1.11, it does not work with baselayout-1.12 > > is this due to changes we are making in Gentoo ? i.e. we've just been > importing ssd from Debian for the most part and i dont really think we > should be diverging in behavior ... > -mike If so then it's undocumented behaviour - s-s-d's manpage expects --stop to= =20 stop the daemon. In the same way that s-s-d expects the daemon to actually = be=20 a daemon instead of a shell script that launches daemons. This change was made months ago, has been in ~ARCH for months and only now= =20 just appears? This has been in a released baselayout since March 2005. lol A quick grep through the tree shows the following packages using=20 start-stop-daemon to send a HUP signal capisuite dnsmasq (has been changed to kill, but not rev bumped) freeradius netkit-timed proxyper hostapd acpid (has been changed to kill in its ~ARCH version) Whereas all other init scripts that send a HUP use kill or killall - exampl= es=20 are spamassassin and syslog-ng =2D-=20 Roy Marples Gentoo Linux Developer --nextPart17234392.flIjFUxxpg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDwpAgEbVyYKaZ/NERAtjjAJ9lP6xBULMSjxXePk6ytsYxCPdjbwCfQBS5 LN4fxatwS9bKPQxNVZxn5g0= =hOQE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart17234392.flIjFUxxpg-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list