Re: [gentoo-dev] Init Scripts

[Marko Mikulicic]

James Yonan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Gentoo and I'm trying to convert the RedHat init script for OpenVPN
> over to Gentoo's format.  Though I'm still learning the Gentoo way of writing
> init scripts, I would like to suggest the following additions to runscript.sh:

> [....]
> (2) Condrestart is a useful init script method, often seen in RH init scripts.
>    It basically says "restart only if service is already running".  It is
> commonly used to restart a daemon after a software update.  OpenVPN needs it
> so that the VPN daemon can be restarted if a network adaptor gets a new IP
> address from a DHCP server.  In cases like these, you obviously don't want to
> restart the daemon unless it is already running.  Condrestart becomes
> breathtakingly simple if started() above is defined:
>
> condrestart() {
>     started || restart
> }
>
> If there are better ways of doing these things in Gentoo, please let me know.
>  Otherwise, I can send a formal patch of my changes to runscript.sh

I don't know the soultion for your problem but I have written a simple 
script for
openvpn, which I use with success on a bunch of machines. It is very 
"gentooish"
because it puts the configuration in /etc/conf.d/openvpn.
  Take a look at it, maybe it can be useful.

marko