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Hello, |
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I'd like to mention a problem that I see occasionally and see if anyone |
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else considers it annoying enough to have fixed somehow. |
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The problem is that services can't be stopped (via /etc/init.d/* ) if |
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the process they started has died since the init script started it. |
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Presumably the scripts try to terminate the process, find that it's not |
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there anymore and exit with an error, but this means that there is no |
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way (aside from starting a process with the correct name then letting |
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the script kill it) to start the service again until the system |
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restarts, which proves very annoying if you're doing anything which |
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causes services to die frequently (in my case I'm playing with the |
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lircd, which is a little flaky sometimes). |
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Is there anything that can be done about this? If the script tries to |
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stop a service and finds the process has died then it probably should |
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report an error, but I think it should also register that the service |
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has stopped so that it can be restarted. |
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Cheers, |
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Andy |
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