I'm having problems with daemon init on Gentoo. Whenever, for example, due to a misconfigured file, a daemon with an /etc/init.d file does not start, (typically sendmail, bind, etc.), whenever I try to restart it using the /etc/init.d/<daemon> restart, or a stop/ start sequence, or just a plain start, it refuses to start again. The error message says that the daemon has already started, in spite of the fact that it did not start. If I then try to stop it, I am told that it was not started. The only way to get the daemon up again is to reboot or change the runlevel and then switch back to the default runlevel.
I am sure there is an easier way to do this.
And just for completness ... every started demon has symlink in /var/lib/init.d/started if u remove it, u can restart the demon paintless again
noro
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