At 13:48 -0600 1998-03-24, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > However, in this case, I do see netbase uses ps in the > postinst to see if the daemaons are awake, and postgresql in the > preinst to see if the postmaster is running. So two packages use this > directly. > > In the latter case, it may be better to use > /var/run/postmaster.pid file or some thing to test for and kill a > running process. Can netbase be changed too?
The version of netbase I have has the parts in the postinst that use ps commented out. FWIW, all of the complicated pipelines involving ps in there could be replaced with: if ! grep <regexp> /proc/*/status then ... fi This does require a kernel with proc filesystem support, but so does procps ;-). -- Joel "Espy" Klecker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux Developer...................<http://www.debian.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
