On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:24:29AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I think the fundamental problem here is that we do not have a generic > way of testing whether a service is running or not. If we did, then > restart should mean "restart only if currently running", unless that > is what "maybe-restart" is meant to mean.... Well we do not have any generic way but every server have at least one process and it is quite easy to find it if you just got the name of it. And the package maintainer should know about that name, and it is quite easy to get the pid too. --- if ps xa | grep -v grep | grep name; then stopit fi startit --- But maybe you are talking about something else, I do not know :) // Ola -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / olalu526@student.liu.se Björnkärrsgatan 5 A.11 \ | opal@lysator.liu.se 584 36 LINKÖPING | | ordforande@lysator.liu.se +46 (0)13-17 69 83 | | ola.lundqvist@euronetics.se +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
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