Re: [gentoo-dev] init.d problem

[Donnie Berkholz]

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> maybe I've found a problem in the init.d stuff:
>
> It seems that /var/lib/init.d/started/* is blindly trusted,
> instead of actually checking if some service is running.
>
> For example, ntpd cannot be restarted via its init.d script
> if it died for some reason - /var/lib/init.d/started/ntpd
> has to be removed manually.

Try  `/etc/init.d/foo zap`.

Thanks,
Donnie