On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Stas Oskin <stas.os...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > >> RHEL doesn't, the daemon scripts for SmartFrog have to look for both RHEL >> and lsb; lsb is what you get on SuSE though. >> >> > Actually LSB is what I'm looking to distance from - too much dependencies > required for it on the RedHat for example. > > I'm looking for a solution that won't rely much on external OS dependencies, > and will be basically self-sufficient. > > Any ideas, other then a pure bash scripting? > > Regards. >
Stas, The problem is only as simple or as hard as you want to make it. LSB defines subs and return codes http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.1/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html RH scripts source /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions, but you don't have to do that. You said "pure bash", that is almost an oxymoron. You can not even truly count on pidof, which, or /proc on all systems. Also the default shell could be csh or sh. Status is always the most interesting function, do you parse ps -ef, do you write a pid file, do you nc to a port? Personally, I would not lose sleep over shell scripts. After all the fun part should be using hadoop, not starting it up.
