Re: [gentoo-dev] init scripts and custom signals

[Roy Marples]

On Monday 09 January 2006 14:22, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 09 January 2006 07:32, Roy Marples wrote:
> > It's been brought to my attention that dnsmasq and acpid use
> > start-stop-daemon to send custom signals such as HUP. While this works
> > with baselayout-1.11, it does not work with baselayout-1.12
>
> is this due to changes we are making in Gentoo ?  i.e. we've just been
> importing ssd from Debian for the most part and i dont really think we
> should be diverging in behavior ...
> -mike

After looking at plently of Debian scripts that use start-stop-daemon to send 
HUP's, most of them also use the --oknodo flag. Using this flag enables the 
desired behaviour in all baselayout versions. This makes sense as the 
--oknodo flag has been in start-stop-daemon for a long time whereas --signal 
was tacked on as an after though (in my eyes looking at its Debian history)

So if you just want to send a daemon a signal and keep it running you must use 
the --oknodo flag.

So in summary

start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 -- exec /usr/sbin/acpid
will stop acpid 

start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --signal 1 -- exec /usr/sbin/acpid
will just send signal 1 (HUP)

Thanks

-- 
Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
Gentoo Linux Developer