Hello (technical discussion probably belongs to debian-devel but I first want to ask if this has already brought to discussion here as the init scripts output is part of the poliy) I user just wrote me that he uses some kind of monitoring tool and would be happy if every server would have his own way to see if it is really running (and not only present in the processlist) and if this service would be available through a general interface like "/etc/init.d/foo status". Currently some servers implement "status" but there seems to be no standard nor recommendation what should be given back. Letting such a check be implemented by the maintainers would at least be better than seeing watchdog scripts that just check for strings in the process list or similar things which seem to work just as long as it's not needed. One idea would be some kind of exit code list 100 - up and running 110 - up but not responding correctly 111 - down 112 - administrativly wanted to be down Another some kind of machine readable first line. bye, -christian-
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