On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:25 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robby Workman wrote: > >> Attached is an "idea" patch - in other words, I don't intend for this > >> to be considered for committing upstream; rather, I'm really just > >> wanting to flesh out whether what I have in mind is horribly bad. :-) > >> > >> Here's the patch (it's also attached, in case some mail clients munge > >> the content. My thoughts are *in* the patch ; responses? :-) > > > >> +# Also, we (Slackware) have some init scripts that don't have a "status" > >> +# directive in them, so maybe using that to check if something is running > >> +# won't always work. > > > > OTOH "service" and the "status" method of init scripts is LSB since quite > > some > > time IIUC, so why not just fix the slackware init scripts? > > service is not LSB. It's just a wrapper that makes initializing > services straightforward across distros. The LSB says that all > services should be installed in /etc/init.d, but it says nothing about > how the system will actually execute the scripts. Maybe service should > be in the LSB, but it's not. > > http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/initsrcinstrm.html > > Robby's point about ambiguous service names is valid, though. Right > now, we only call stopservice() for ntpd, but it could be called ntp > or nettime or anything else since there's no convention for that.
Which is why I would like to see some of the hooks moved into te packages they are relevant to. ntpd is a big example of one such hook, NetworkManager is another. > -- > Dan > _______________________________________________ > Pm-utils mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils -- Victor Lowther Ubuntu Certified Professional _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
