Re: XFS won't daemonize
Hi,
I changed my init script to yours and it worked!! Tell
me, shouldn't the script have been changed when I
changed to X 4.1.0? Or is it that the X installation
doesn't take care of that? Thanks
-Prince
--- Vivek <vivek@etla.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Prince Mathew Samuel wrote:
>
> > Yes I am sure, it is XFS. I removed XFS from my
> > startup script and tried starting it separately
> from
> > command line. This too results in XFS not going to
> the
> > background. Any ideas?
>
> Hmm. What version of xfs do you have? Is your init
> script significantly
> different from mine? (attached)
>
> --
> I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this
> wasn't it.
> -- Groucho Marx
> > #!/bin/sh
> # /etc/init.d/xfs: start or stop the X font server
>
> set -e
>
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
> DAEMON=/usr/bin/X11/xfs
> PIDFILE=/var/run/xfs.pid
> UPGRADEFILE=/var/run/xfs.upgrade
>
> test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
>
> # If we upgraded the daemon, we can't use the --exec
> argument to
> # start-stop-daemon since the inode will have
> changed. The risk here is that
> # in a situation where the daemon died, its pidfile
> was not cleaned up, and
> # some other process is now running under that pid,
> start-stop-daemon will send
> # signals to an innocent process. However, this
> seems like a corner case.
> # C'est la vie!
> if [ -e $UPGRADEFILE ]; then
> SSD_ARGS="--pidfile $PIDFILE --startas $DAEMON"
> else
> SSD_ARGS="--pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON"
> fi
>
> stillrunning () {
> if [ "$DAEMON" = "$(cat /proc/$DAEMONPID/cmdline
> 2> /dev/null)" ]; then
> true
> else
> # if the daemon does not remove its own pidfile,
> we will
> rm -f $PIDFILE $UPGRADEFILE
> false
> fi;
> }
>
> case "$1" in
> start)
> echo -n "Starting X font server: xfs"
> start-stop-daemon --start --quiet $SSD_ARGS --
> -daemon || echo -n " already running"
> echo "."
> ;;
>
> restart)
> /etc/init.d/xfs stop
> if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
> if stillrunning; then
> exit 1
> fi
> fi
> /etc/init.d/xfs start
> ;;
>
> reload)
> echo -n "Reloading X font server
> configuration..."
> if start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet
> $SSD_ARGS; then
> echo "done."
> else
> echo "xfs not running."
> fi
> ;;
>
> force-reload)
> /etc/init.d/xfs reload
> ;;
>
> stop)
> echo -n "Stopping X font server: xfs"
> if [ ! -f $PIDFILE ]; then
> echo " not running ($PIDFILE not found)."
> exit 0
> else
> DAEMONPID=$(cat $PIDFILE | tr -d '[:blank:]')
> KILLCOUNT=1
> if [ ! -e $UPGRADEFILE ]; then
> start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet $SSD_ARGS
> || echo -n " not running"
> fi
> while [ $KILLCOUNT -le 5 ]; do
> if stillrunning; then
> kill $DAEMONPID
> else
> break
> fi
> sleep 1
> KILLCOUNT=$(expr $KILLCOUNT + 1)
> done
> if stillrunning; then
> echo -n "not responding to TERM signal (pid
> $DAEMONPID)"
> else
> rm -f $UPGRADEFILE
> fi
> fi
> echo "."
> ;;
>
> *)
> echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/xfs
> {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}"
> exit 1
> ;;
> esac
>
> exit 0
>
> # vim:set ai et sts=2 sw=2 tw=0:
>
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