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On Monday 03 May 2004 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 |
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> > after gdm is killed by selecting reboot/shutdown from the login |
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> > screen? It just annoys me that the script errors while shutting |
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> > 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 |
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> it isnt... The problem there is with dependencies, should they be |
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> stopped if the service died? But the current system is clearly |
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> broken.. |
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I agree, I think we should enhance the init scripts with another function |
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that can check the status of a daemon (in some way) and as such also |
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does not complain when a died daemon needs to be started. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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