Giacomo A. Catenazzi dijo [Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:05:35AM +0200]: > In Debian policy: > : The init.d scripts must ensure that they will behave sensibly > : (i.e., returning success and not starting multiple copies of a > : service) if invoked with start when the service is already running, > : or with stop when it isn't, and that they don't kill > : unfortunately-named user processes. > > this case is not cited in the examples, but I really think > that *behave sensibly* cover also thiscase , i.e. after a crash a > daemon should start, also if .pid exists.
Strong +1. This is, however, unrelated to whatever happened at boot - If the daemon crashed during regular system usage and it is started again, it should start regardless if there are any pidfiles lying around. -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org