# Yes, and if there is no gpm installed or it failed, X will run anyway. Okay, that's cool.
Some things I've been kicking around: - Remote service management This is a tricky issue. There's no real defined protocol for it AFAIK, and things like authentication need very careful consideration. The best thing I could think of would be to have some sort of 'svcd' that's optionally started at some later stage (for a start, it depends on networking :). That doesn't really need thinking about for a while yet, and I don't even know if it's worthwhile doing. From a network management point of view, though, being able to do: $ svc granite:httpd restart Would be imensely useful. - IPC? My thinking was that init should handle all of the service starting/stopping, and that 'svc' would be simple wrapper around an easy-to-use library that communicates with init (and maybe also acts as the client for remote service control). I was aiming for something nice and simple, like: int scm_control(const char *hostname, const char *service, scmact_t *action); And 'svc' just calls it thusly: action=SC_START; scm_control(NULL, service_name, &action); ...or whichever. The problem is, I can't figure out the best way to make the client library communicate with init [in a portable way]. How does this sound? Any suggestions? -- Mo McKinlay Chief Software Architect inter/open Labs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 Mo McKinlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
