Re: RFC: initscript policy proposal

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

In Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:38:50 +0100 Ola Lundqvist <olalu526@student.liu.se> cum veritate scripsit :

> 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
> ---

The right solution will be to have a lockfile with PID in it somewhere in the 
filesystem maybe /tmp or /var/tmp or anywhere like that, and look at the file
to restart it.

That's about the only clean way things can go without interfering with 
chroot installations that I could think up of.


regards,
	junichi

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