From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 232121381F3 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 14:01:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A653E0D12; Sun, 26 May 2013 14:00:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jacques.telenet-ops.be (jacques.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.50]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DC3E0BA1 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 14:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from TOMWIJ-GENTOO ([94.226.55.127]) by jacques.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id ge0v1l00a2khLEN0Je0wcV; Sun, 26 May 2013 16:00:56 +0200 Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 15:58:51 +0200 From: Tom Wijsman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect init Message-ID: <20130526155851.581fb8ce@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> In-Reply-To: <67590649bf4a40ee66c557235e41c9b5.squirrel@www.antarean.org> References: <51A08A68.3020900@gentoo.org> <20130525153827.61ed2ca4@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <5d832c4680bfbd3ae7da6dfe5608be2d.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <20130525215520.77ca8df0@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <67590649bf4a40ee66c557235e41c9b5.squirrel@www.antarean.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.18; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/0oZn+zcPphJYp45NPlBwneS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 52347bb1-b0c5-4c65-a36c-6e09aaee6efc X-Archives-Hash: 69395f44373a0a32b0e50e777ed3df7d --Sig_/0oZn+zcPphJYp45NPlBwneS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 26 May 2013 14:59:28 +0200 "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > As an example. Lets say I want to test a new init-system. [SNIP]=20 > If I then, accidentally, type "/etc/init.d/xyz start" when "xyz" > hasn't been started by any means yet. What will happen? > I would assume that openrc will try to start "xyz"? As I said before: > > They currently just bail out with bogus errors as far as I am aware. > > > > # /etc/init.d/ntpd start > > ntpd | * WARNING: ntpd is already starting > > # /etc/init.d/ntpd stop > > ntpd | * ERROR: ntpd stopped by something else >=20 > See above, what about if "ntpd" wasn't running yet? ntpd isn't running on my system and wasn't when I did that. > > No, if you keep the init system the same as the one you boot with > > there should be no problems. >=20 > See above, what about trying to start services using the method of the > not-running init? The same, feel free to emerge systemd and try to start a service; I expect this to bail out since its dependencies aren't started, for its dependencies to start the init system itself should be in use. --=20 With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D --Sig_/0oZn+zcPphJYp45NPlBwneS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRohUeAAoJEJWyH81tNOV9ZBgIAJZNNYZqxz+o+QOZRMIj5SS9 CtYarUnkn3fVZJJprO7xTAlI4zqQISRTsvLoMCT249a8LSV05xfmgSGFL1VgmXpm 09vtux9RCOL47iet+KTkhNYclw8Rtft9YMpBEY6p3HDiKRjip/U1XIlJf5B2OQIg OvVIMIYguQZnVsXv5+nvoMPtVYqVRF767s+fDFaye53MByZeEf4Y7edqFSHRy7n9 8gK2Rxvq2g1pSZbEE0CPd2hmpMqCzqWS5jlTOXQ5q7EP/qmUv+1UeW0UudCg62zu MR7ghjB6eJ4otzEcFVGc1XfG2hL5cBnCy1AJ574et6u+2CaDiINTWlayBPQydrg= =mToV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/0oZn+zcPphJYp45NPlBwneS--