Re: Debian, daemons and runlevels (was: Re: X and runlevels)

2000-09-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Here is what I'm trying to fix: Upgrading a daemon while the system is in > runlevel 4 and the init script system is set up to stop that daemon in > runlevel 4 is a *bug*. Damn, I should have said "Starting a daemon in a upgrade while the system...

Re: Debian, daemons and runlevels (was: Re: X and runlevels)

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:01:31PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Here is what I'm trying to fix: Upgrading a daemon while the system is > in runlevel 4 and the init script system is set up to stop that daemon > in runlevel 4 is a *bug*. ok, this makes sense. i must have misunderstood what y

Re: Debian, daemons and runlevels (was: Re: X and runlevels)

2000-09-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:28:20AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > I was going to tack this sooner or later (the "trust us, we KNOW you > > want the daemons to start always" current state of almost all daemon > > packages annoys me to no end, and fr

Re: Debian, daemons and runlevels (was: Re: X and runlevels)

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:28:20AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > I was going to tack this sooner or later (the "trust us, we KNOW you > want the daemons to start always" current state of almost all daemon > packages annoys me to no end, and from past flamewars I know I'm not > the only one),

Re: Debian, daemons and runlevels (was: Re: X and runlevels)

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 04 Sep 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > This would be managed through a simple (for sysvinit. I don't believe it'd > be very complex for file-rc either, but I didn't check), standard > script/program added to the sysvinit and file-rc packages (and any other > future packages of the same s

Debian, daemons and runlevels (was: Re: X and runlevels)

2000-09-04 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Mon 04 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > > It's unfortunate that there's no easy way to find the current runlevel > (the usual "who -r" from Solaris etc. doesn't work), otherwise this > piece of code could be used: > > RL=`who -r` > if [ -x