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I remember a time when gentoo (enoch?) used djb's daemontools to manages |
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services. Why was this changed? |
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-John |
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On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 08:15, Olivier Crête wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 07:10, John Nilsson wrote: |
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> > While on the topic: |
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> > Is it resonable to patch gdm so that /etc/init.d/xdm is zapped after |
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> > gdm is killed by selecting reboot/shutdown from the login screen? |
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> > It just annoys me that the script errors while shutting down. |
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> This is imho a misfeature of the current initscripts system. The |
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> started-ness of an application is only checked against a file and not |
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> against the current real status. We should probably add a possible |
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> "status()" function to them (that would default to true) that would |
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> check if the service is still running in a custom way.. And zap it if it |
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> isnt... The problem there is with dependencies, should they be stopped |
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> if the service died? But the current system is clearly broken.. |
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