From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9205 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Jun 2003 14:09:32 -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 25809 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2003 14:09:31 -0000 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:20:14 +0300 (EEST) From: leio@hercules.dustbite.org To: Norbert Kamenicky cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <3EE09A5C.7030800@xmedia.sk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange behavior of rc scripts X-Archives-Salt: 4326c8ed-b7dd-478f-b1e8-41d621efb4ef X-Archives-Hash: 99dad51274cd9a3e8042cda3467f24a1 On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > On unixes it's quite common, that if some daemon started from > init rc scripts fails, it's possible to re/start it paintless by hand > again ... > ( but not on Gentoo ? ) If a service is not running but the init system thinks it is, you just need to zap it, just as suggested in the initscripts helpfile (I believe it was /etc/init.d/ help but I could remember wrong, not at home and forced to use MS Windows atm :( ) /etc/init.d/ zap > When I switched from RH to Gentoo, the first thing > I was worry about were rc init scripts, because I can > only hardly to imagine something better then system 5 ones... > let's try to convince me I am wrong :-) Gentoo initscripts are just about perfect and work is in progress to make it even more perfect (if I recall correct then the initscript system is being developed to hold initscript dependencies in a tree so that multiple services can be started to increase boot-up time heavily) If you cared to read the docs from gentoo.org you wouldn't ask about it. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml which is directly linked from the docs link on gentoo homepage. Also such questions do NOT go to the gentoo-dev mailing list. Mart Raudsepp -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list