On Tuesday 04 July 2006 23:58, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:43, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > We should think about mechanisms to check if the service is > > actually running. This could also be used for frequently service > > checks and notification. > > there is no fool proof way to do this > -mike
No there's not as what the init script actually starts is up to the init script. However, with baselayout-1.12 we intercept calls to start-stop-daemon and store information about what was started (binary, pidfile) so when root then does "/etc/init.d/foo status" we check to see if all the binaries are still running. If not then we do an "/etc/init.d/foo stop" behind the scenes. But some init scripts don't use start-stop-daemon, like sshd. These scripts will need to be re-working around start-stop-daemon. -- Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
