Re: Daemontools
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Klaus Reimer wrote:
> I don't want to "replace" the binary. I just want the init.d-Mechanism to
> ignore the service. But it's working in that way, too. I just divert
> /usr/sbin/proftpd, call /usr/sbin/proftpd.real from my supervise-run-script
> and the init.d script does nothing because it does not find
> /usr/sbin/proftpd. But what's the more clean solution in that case? Diverting
> the binary or the init.d-script?
>
> Are all init.d-scripts in Debian written in that way? Checking if the binary
> exists and exiting if not?
Unfortunatley, the short answer to that is "no." There was quite a thread
about this last summer (or around then). We discussed using somewhat
standardized .rc or .config files for each service that would have
variables such as "START_SERVICE=1" (similar to the way that HP-UX does
it). This way, you could load a package but not be forced to run it.
I'm not sure what came of it.
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