Re: [gentoo-user] How should I kill a daemon from an ebuild file?

[Jules Colding <colding@omesc.com>]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:45 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:54 +0200, Jules Colding wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have an ebuild (see below) for a small keyring daemon. I would like
> > to
> > kill the daemon process, if it is running, whenever it is emerged
> > again
> > to ensure that no running daemon process refers to an old install.
> > 
> > Is there a clean and recommended way of doing this in an ebuild or
> > should I just use killall in pkg_postinst()?
> 
> You might wanna check the -dev mailing list to be sure, but I'm almost
> certain that they'll tell you this is a no-no.  Generally speaking
> ebuilds should build/install packages and not affect the system in ways
> like starting/killing processes. A simple ELOG message is the preferred
> method.
> 
> Nevertheless, the -dev list is probably the better forum to answer your
> question.

OK - thanks,
  jules


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