Dan Nicholson wrote: > I've been digging around in the bootscripts a little more lately, and > I've found some behavior that I think could be changed and I'd like > comments on. I can provide patches later, but first I thought I'd like > to hear comments. > > 1. Make statusproc() return unsuccessfully if the process isn't running
+1 > 2. Make statusproc() use pidofproc() instead of the deprecated getpids() +1 > 3. Allow the -p pidfile argument to all *proc() functions +1 > 4. Add the /sbin/service script to allow an agnostic way to query the > bootscripts +0 > This is not an original idea. I think all the major distros do this > (Fedora and SuSE for sure), although it's not an LSB requirement. Debian doesn't do this 5. Apply the patch from http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-October/058454.html - also needed for hibernation on the LiveCD when the non-standard implementation of the PPPoE network service is used. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
