Ahh, but you're forgetting that sysvinit thang I wish never happened: runlevels. And of course that 5 function thing with start, stop, restart, and the other two, whatever they are.
But yeah, Edward, your requires, requires_running, start_parameters and stop_parameters are a good start. And you also need provides so that the process is given a name which others can be dependent upon. SteveT On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 21:31:26 +0200 Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to suggest as a text template format for the automatic > generation of init scripts to use a format similar to the one used in > package control files. This uses sections that can easily be parsed > without using complex parsers. > > I would go like this: > > Requires: > Requires_Running: > Start_Parameters: > Stop_Parameters: > > Edward > > On 05/06/2016, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 16:41:22 +0200 > > Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> wrote: > > > > > >> OK but can we avoid polarization and use "markup (language > >> definition)" instead of XML here? I share and understand well > >> everyone's concerns about XML here and think it won't help mutual > >> understanding of what you point out if we keep the unfortunate > >> example Florian did. True that his suggestion is interesting. > >> > >> FTR I think YAML is a very interesting tree structured markup > >> language very easy to read for humans and parse for machines. > > > > YAML is good. Python has an excellent YAML parser. YAML would be an > > excellent choice for Florian's idea. > > > > YAML has no end tags, which means it gets cumbersome when data > > becomes longer than an easily viewed line. So it's possible that > > instead of *containing* scripts, the YAML would *point to* scripts. > > > > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
