On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 11:52:34PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
A belated Hi! in return....
> What do people feel about periodic postings of this list to
> this mailing list, say, once a month?
This used to be done by Joey Hess on a weekly basis. But it's hard
work.
> #60979: What /etc/init.d/xxx restart does?
> status: restart stops and starts the program, perhaps we need a
> start-rc.d script We now are waiting for code.
> Action: Nothing, until the code is written.
> This should be downgraded to a proposal, pending code.
>
> #20373: [PROPOSAL] shouldn't start init scripts in wrong runlevel
> Status: this is the same problem as addressed in #60979. We need
> code for start-rc.d
> Action: Nothing, until the code is written.
I've written and posted skeleton code. It should not be much work to
flesh it out. However, it will need rewriting for the file-rc package
as well. Just checking my archives to find the code.... Ah, found
it (and small patch applied):
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Subject: Re: start daemons according to current runlevel upon upgrade
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 23:18:03 +0100 (BST)
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> I have created two scripts named start-rc.d. One for runlevel links and
> one for file-rc. I think, they should be included in the corresponding
> packages which contain the update-rc.d skript (dpkg and file-rc).
Firstly, see bug#20373 where this is discussed. A policy change would
be worthwhile.
I would recommend start-stop-service as a name, parallelling
start-stop-daemon and you need the following logic, not including
error checking (and you beat me to it by just a couple of days);
remember that you need to check /etc/rcS.d as well!
<copy startup() from /etc/init.d/rc>
<baulk if #args!=2>
PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin
service=$1
op=$2
runlevel=`runlevel | cut -c3`
<baulk if ! -f /etc/init.d/$service>
case "$2" in
start|restart|reload|force-reload)
start=/etc/rc$runlevel.d/S[0-9][0-9]$service
stop=/etc/rc$runlevel.d/K[0-9][0-9]$service
rcS_start=/etc/rcS.d/S[0-9][0-9]$service
# Check whether the daemon should be started
if [ -f $start ]; then startup $i $2
elseif [ -f $rcS_start ] && [ ! -f $stop ]; then startup $i $2
fi
;;
stop)
[ -f /etc/init.d/$service ] && /etc/init.d/$service stop
;;
*)
<give error message>
;;
esac
Note that this assumes that /etc/init.d/$service won't fall over if
you stop a stopped daemon or start a started one; this should probably
be made a policy requirement.
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So let's do something, shall we? ;-) This script needs completing and
going into the sysvinit package, and translating for the file-rc
package. Shall we call it start-rc.d or start-stop-service?
Julian
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