Michael Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> It would (IMO) be more elegant if the definitive start/stop status was
> represented by the symlinks in /etc/rc.d/init.d - this is how it's meant
> to work (at least according to the chkconfig manual).
We can't change that that easily. Currently, the standard is to use the
"chkconfig:" token: chkconfig reads it and set the levels on or off
accordingly, when it --add a service.
[...]
> 1. Check to see if service is running ("service xxx status")
Not a definitive solution unfortunately. Do a "service --status-all" and
try to write a script that says which services are up.. There's for the
moment no common way of doing the thing (whereas we try to use the "pid is
running..." / "binary is stopped" whenever possible)
> 2. Stop the service (temporarily - "service xxx stop")
> 3. Upgrade the files
> 4. Run my script to modify the new /etc/rc.d/init.d/xxx script to edit
> the initscript to reflect the administrator's previous settings.
Upgrades are treated locally to each server (in %scripts), unfortunately..
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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
