On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:38:01AM -0700, Stephen Gildea wrote: > If bug #208010 goes too far, this bug report doesn't go far enough. > The "status" option should be required, not optional. Only if it can be > counted on will it be useful.
Some initscripts cannot provide a status, because they do not launch daemons. > I'm interested in being able to check the status of services when I > suspend and resume a laptop. Some services must be stopped before a > suspend can happen; others must be restarted after a resume. But in all > cases the restart-on-resume should happen only if the service was > running before the suspend. > > The "hibernate" package provides nice wrappers for suspend and resume, > including the ability to stop and restart services. But it can't > reliably restart exactly the services that were running, because it > cannot check which services were running. > > The set of services actually running may not be the list that was > started automatically when the current run level was entered. Packages > such as "whereami" may stop or start services based on the current > network environment of a portable computer. Or the user may have > stopped or started a service manually. So the only way to know whether > a service is running is to ask it, via a "status" option. Why not start by providing patches to init scripts ? Debian initscripts sorely need a cleansing. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
