On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:10:41PM +0100, Mo McKinlay wrote: > # On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:05:03PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > # > # So makefile-ish init. > > I had an idea about developing this for Linux (I wasn't aware some such > thing existed) - actually inspired by WinNT's "service" handling. The way > it worked was (briefly): > > - Every service had several states: > * Stopped > * Starting > * Started > * Paused > * Stopping > > - Every service could be controlled by a pretty standard command (I used > the name 'svc' for my test program), which took the syntax:
There is something similar, see http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html. It is not GPLed and is missing the makefile-ish concept. But we can take some ideas of it. -- Stefan Karrmann
