On Sun, 26 May 2013 14:59:28 +0200 "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote:
> As an example. Lets say I want to test a new init-system. [SNIP] > If I then, accidentally, type "/etc/init.d/xyz start" when "xyz" > hasn't been started by any means yet. What will happen? > I would assume that openrc will try to start "xyz"? As I said before: > > They currently just bail out with bogus errors as far as I am aware. > > > > # /etc/init.d/ntpd start > > ntpd | * WARNING: ntpd is already starting > > # /etc/init.d/ntpd stop > > ntpd | * ERROR: ntpd stopped by something else > > See above, what about if "ntpd" wasn't running yet? ntpd isn't running on my system and wasn't when I did that. > > No, if you keep the init system the same as the one you boot with > > there should be no problems. > > See above, what about trying to start services using the method of the > not-running init? The same, feel free to emerge systemd and try to start a service; I expect this to bail out since its dependencies aren't started, for its dependencies to start the init system itself should be in use. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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