This doesnt help because now I have to find out if the process crashed before doing zap. I can understand why gentoo keeps the provides etc info in the /mnt/.init.d files. But why keep started etc in there. Even if it keeps it it should do a pid check before just complaining that it is already started. Balaji -----Original Message----- From: Todd Punderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to put the startup scripts in debug mode?
Check out /etc/init.d/<service> zap Todd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Balaji Srinivasan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'brett holcomb'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:38 PM Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Any way to put the startup scripts in debug mode? > The problem as i see with this approach is that if someone kills a process > by hand (or it crashes), the start up scripts dont recognize it. This is > because as far as /mnt/.init.d is concerned it is still started. > Balaji > > -----Original Message----- > From: brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 12:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to put the startup scripts in debug > mode? > > > If I remember correctly /mnt/.init.d is created during > startup as it's a memory resident file. > > > On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:26:40 -0800 > Balaji Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Hi Everyone > >Is there any easy way to have /sbin/runscript and the > >start-stop-daemon > >print out some reasonable debug logs when it fails? Its > >really irritating to > >see those two !! marks to say the startup failed but have > >no idea why it > >failed. I had to do an strace to find out that it looks > >at /mnt/.init.d/ for > >a lot of info etc. Why cant it depend on runtime > >information rather than > >depend on info from the file system which could be out of > >date. > >Thanks > >Balaji > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
