Not really valid for the network/networking (debian) service - there
is no daemon, unless you count dhcpcd / networkmanager & friends.
As to the original question, I ship a modified version of the init
scripts for Ubuntu to do some $(ip link) parsing, also one-count pings
to the default gateway. Assuming that these are valid metrics in your
environment - link up, can ping gateway.
On 18/10/2008, at 9:21 AM, Russell Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Has anyone solved status checking for the network service on fedora?
>> Since it always returns success, using 'hastatus => true' does not
>> work.
>> We have some recipes that always cause the network service to restart
>> even when it does not need to.
>>
>
> Override 'pattern'. The daemon's name often doesn't match the
> service name, and the
> default pattern sometimes also matches more than it should out of
> the process list (e.g.
> the service name is a substring of another process' name).
>
> For example, the autofs service:
>
> service { "autofs":
> ensure => stopped,
> enable => false,
> hasstatus => false,
> pattern => "\bautomount\b",
> }
>
> The '\b' matches word boundaries which forces it to match the entire
> word rather than any
> substring. While not strictly necessary in this example, I included
> it for completeness.
>
> --
> Russell A. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Network Analyst
> California State University, Bakersfield
>
> He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
>
> >
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