On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:49:06AM +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 02:19:47AM -0700, Eric Schwartz wrote: > > 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. > > perhaps using daemonic (or better, the idea[1] behind daemonic) to xml-ize a daemon > startup and then write the corrisponding init.d shell script, this way it would > be easy to wrap around and check for (un)successfulness > e.g.: > > <service> > <description>Squid proxy cache</description> > <message>Squid proxy cache</message> > <daemon name="squid"> > <executable checkexit="true">/sw/sbin/squid</executable> > <parameters>-D</parameters> > <configfile>/sw/etc/squid.conf</configfile> > <pidfile>/sw/var/run/squid.pid</pidfile> > </daemon> > </service> XML is not a catch-all thing that will solve all computer-related problems on this planet. In this particular case, you're trying to implement what's currently done using shell-scripts (mostly) in xml, which isn't even remotely a good idea, if at all possible. Not to mention readability. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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