Bug#291148: [PROPOSAL] Add a 'status' option in init.d scripts

[<allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:30:55AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> --- policy.sgml.orig	2005-01-19 01:10:37.000000000 +0100
> +++ policy.sgml	2005-01-19 01:13:05.000000000 +0100
> @@ -5392,13 +5392,17 @@
>  	      <tag><tt>force-reload</tt></tag>
>  	      <item>cause the configuration to be reloaded if the
>  		  service supports this, otherwise restart the
> -		  service.</item>
> +		  service,</item>
> +
> +	      <tag><tt>status</tt></tag>
> +	      <item><p>show the status of the service (either running
> +                  or dead).</item>
>  	    </taglist>

I don't think this is a sufficient specification. We should make it
clear what status should display in the different case:

1) init script does not start a daemon
2.a) init script start a daemon  which is running
2.b) init script start a daemon  which is not running
3) init script start several daemons 
4) init script was disabled in config

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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