Re: [gentoo-dev] Starting/stopping services

[will <willg@bluesock.org>]

They can't be stopped because there's nothing to be stopped.  However, zap
should work.

If you do "/sbin/runscript", then it'll tell you all about runscript 
stuff.

/will


On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Andy Arbon wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to mention a problem that I see occasionally and see if anyone
> else considers it annoying enough to have fixed somehow.
> 
> The problem is that services can't be stopped (via /etc/init.d/* ) if
> the process they started has died since the init script started it.
> 
> Presumably the scripts try to terminate the process, find that it's not
> there anymore and exit with an error, but this means that there is no
> way (aside from starting a process with the correct name then letting
> the script kill it) to start the service again until the system
> restarts, which proves very annoying if you're doing anything which
> causes services to die frequently (in my case I'm playing with the
> lircd, which is a little flaky sometimes).
> 
> Is there anything that can be done about this? If the script tries to
> stop a service and finds the process has died then it probably should
> report an error, but I think it should also register that the service
> has stopped so that it can be restarted.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
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