Re: rc

[sk@theseus.mathematik.uni-ulm.de]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:10:41PM +0100, Mo McKinlay wrote:
> # On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:05:03PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:
> # 
> # So makefile-ish init.
> 
> I had an idea about developing this for Linux (I wasn't aware some such
> thing existed) - actually inspired by WinNT's "service" handling. The way
> it worked was (briefly):
> 
> - Every service had several states:
>     * Stopped
>     * Starting
>     * Started
>     * Paused
>     * Stopping
>      
> - Every service could be controlled by a pretty standard command (I used
> the name 'svc' for my test program), which took the syntax:

There is something similar, see http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html. It is not
GPLed and is missing the makefile-ish concept. But we can take some ideas of
it.

-- 
Stefan Karrmann