From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30336 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Jan 2003 20:20:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 22434 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2003 20:20:06 -0000 Message-ID: <3E2DAA45.4060700@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:15:01 -0800 From: J Robert Ray User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: absinthe@pobox.com Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <17900000.1043139368@dsl231-045-162.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net> <200301210409.59280.vapier@gentoo.org> <200301211039.45740.absinthe@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <200301211039.45740.absinthe@pobox.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.72.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Starting/stopping services X-Archives-Salt: bda8fd11-9658-48fe-b1fb-3c210a0d8669 X-Archives-Hash: c3567bb518e93957254c246adf87f646 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dylan Carlson wrote: | | I would like to have the ability to zap a service as "started". There are | some scenarios where a startup script will fire off many background | processes and might fail on one or two of them. | | The script will be flagged as "stopped", but the background processes that | are running will keep running. So if there was way to set the script as | "started", you could do a normal stop to kill off whatever did manage to | start, instead of manually killing off processes. 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? - - Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.1.90-nr1 (Windows XP) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+LapEbv6Y11NqSv8RAqRIAJwKGbPDTi9pY+9i72pLrudw+0kXsgCfTdac HNAY9LqonOtLrHBKWjg9u2k= =F8Ca -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list