Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
> Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk> writes:
>
> >
> > That much is easy, but how do you turn a process ID into a script that
> > can be invoke-rc.d'd?
>
> Make it part of the Debian spec?
>
> define a known script name (logging-daemon) that must exist in
> /etc/init.d/ and can be a symlink to another one.
>
> submit a small patch to each logging daemon to add/remove this link when
> the package is installed/removed?
Sounds ugly to me.
Here's another suggestion: start-stop-daemon is in a /very/ good
position to know which PID belongs to which initscript. Patch it so that
it writes the PIDs to some "database"[1] somewhere; then patch
invoke-rc.d to be able to use that "database". Probably best to do that
through some well-defined interface, rather than having invoke-rc.d
directly reading out that db, though.
[1] "database", as in, "some way to store PIDs and which initscript they
belong to", not necessarily as in "libdb", and absolutely not as in
"SQL-engine with data files".
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Fun will now commence
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