On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 02:13:46PM +1000, Ian McWilliam wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Need some advice on the rc script infrastructure and the best way to detect
> running processes.
>
> is some like the following acceptable practice or are there some existing
> functions that will do the
> equivalent.
>
> rc_pre() {
> pgrep -fq "${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/samba"
> if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then
> rc_err "$0: Cannot run while AD Server Running"
> fi
> }
I am not sure what you are looking for here. You want to make sure one cannot
start samba if it's already running?
If so, rc_check() does what you want. If you meant something else, please
elaborate :-)
> Secondly is it acceptable to create a common rc script to hold common subs
> used amongst multiple rc
> script for a port, eg samba.subr that will be used by smbd and nmbd rc
> scripts?
No, the only time we use a common rc script is to start all processes of a
common package (like we do with samba3 already).
--
Antoine
