Stuart Henderson, 2021-10-21 16:45:47 +0100:
> Sometimes I find it useful to list daemons which are set to 'disabled'
> but are actually running. Either those where I have started them by hand
> forgotten to enable in rc.conf.local, or to check for services which
> shouldn't be running but which are anyway. Any comments on this diff
> to add it to rcctl? It's pretty much the opposite of "rcctl ls failed".
An alternative solution to the problem: report an abnormal daemon status
in a new field of existing commands' output. For example, given daemons:
dhcpd is off and stop
cron on and run
ftpd off but run (rogue)
smtpd on but stop (failed)
new output may look this:
# rcctl ls off
dhcpd
ftpd running # aka rogue
# rcctl ls started
cron
ftpd off # aka rogue
For parity:
# rcctl ls stopped
dhcpd
smtpd on # aka failed
# rcctl ls on
cron
smtpd stopped # aka failed
and, perhaps, even:
# rcctl ls all
dhcpd off stopped
cron on running
ftpd off running
smtpd on stopped
Rationale: avoid coming up with command names for needed permutations of
statuses; less commands; full status overview (for 'rcctl ls all').
Drawback: breaks potential programmes that read and parse the output of
'rcctl ls'. Can be mitigated by guarding new output with some -s(tatus)
or -v(erbose) command line flag.
Thoughts?
