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From: Norbert Kamenicky <noro@××××××.sk>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange behavior of rc scripts
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:47:40
Message-Id: 3EE0A95F.8020406@xmedia.sk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange behavior of rc scripts by leio@hercules.dustbite.org
1 leio@×××××××××××××××××.org wrote:
2
3 >On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Norbert Kamenicky wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >
7 >>On unixes it's quite common, that if some daemon started from
8 >>init rc scripts fails, it's possible to re/start it paintless by hand
9 >>again ...
10 >>( but not on Gentoo ? )
11 >>
12 >>
13 >
14 >If a service is not running but the init system thinks it is, you just
15 >need to zap it, just as suggested in the initscripts helpfile (I believe
16 >it was /etc/init.d/<a initscript> help but I could remember wrong, not at
17 >home and forced to use MS Windows atm :( )
18 >
19 >/etc/init.d/<initscript> zap
20 >
21 >
22 >
23 >>When I switched from RH to Gentoo, the first thing
24 >>I was worry about were rc init scripts, because I can
25 >>only hardly to imagine something better then system 5 ones...
26 >>let's try to convince me I am wrong :-)
27 >>
28 >>
29 >
30 >Gentoo initscripts are just about perfect and work is in progress to make
31 >it even more perfect (if I recall correct then the initscript system is
32 >being developed to hold initscript dependencies in a tree so that multiple
33 >services can be started to increase boot-up time heavily)
34 >If you cared to read the docs from gentoo.org you wouldn't ask about it.
35 >http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml which is directly linked from
36 >the docs link on gentoo homepage.
37 >Also such questions do NOT go to the gentoo-dev mailing list.
38 >
39 >Mart Raudsepp
40 >
41 Yeah, I know, I have to use "zap", but I can't understand
42 what is the advantage of this complication ...
43
44 Perfect is something, which is simple and easy to use ... (KISS)
45 can you imagine, new Mercedes (automatic gearbox equiped)
46 with an extra clutch ?
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48 Noro
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