On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 04:56:23PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Can you give some examples where a daemon can't be started by default?

> I can only think of the two atm:
> 1.) Missing configuration data

That was pretty much the main one.

> - Easy solution: Check for the configuration, e.g. a missing config
> file are missing setting in a config file. In that case, exit and
> (optionally, probably based on the VERBOSE setting) give a warning
> message.

Depending on the particular reason that there is a problem this can be
very difficult to do and obviously it can decay into something close
enough to the checks you're trying to avoid to be indistinguishable.

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