Re: Top 5 things that aren't in Debian but should be :-)
On Tuesday, Jan 13, 2004, at 02:04 America/Denver, Warren Turkal wrote:
There is also the problem of knowing whether a script executed
successfully
or not.
This is a real problem. It's perfectly possible for a sysadmin to typo
an entry in
/etc/dhcpd.conf (for instance :), run '/etc/init.d/dhcp restart' and
have no idea that dhcp isn't running unless she reflexively pgrep's for
it, or checks /var/log/syslog for errors.
IMO, an amendment to Policy to require init scripts to clearly (and
ideally, consistently) state success or failure on any
start/stop/reload/whatever request would be valuable.
-=Eric
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