Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of baselayout2 problems

[John covici]

on Monday 03/30/2009 Alan McKinnon(alan.mckinnon@×××××.com) wrote
 > On Monday 30 March 2009 12:33:48 Dale wrote:
 > > John covici wrote:
 > 
 > > > The other problem is that once in a while a service dies -- named did
 > > > this -- and it would not let me stop the service and when I tried to
 > > > restart I got the message that the service was already started and it
 > > > would not start.  How do I tell openrt or whomever that something has
 > > > already stopped?
 > > >
 > > > Any assistance on these would be appreciated.
 > >
 > > If something is stopped but init thinks it is still running, try the zap
 > > option.  /etc/init.d/<service> zap
 > >
 > > Not sure on the rest.  Hope that helps tho.
 > 
 > His real problem isn't baselayout2 and openrc, it's named.
 > 
 > named is notorious for crappy stupid behaviour when being stopped and 
 > confusing the init scripts. It happens to me so often that now I tossed out 
 > the init script and do it manually.
 > 
 > One day when my country's currency is worth something I can afford ans then I 
 > can get rid of named and it's start-up crap forever. It's still the only 
 > service I ever have to use "zap" on

Thanks, at least I can restart with no difficulties after using zap.
Spamd has the opposite behavior, the init script tells me it died when
its actually running.


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