On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:08, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 02:44, Russell Coker wrote: > > Surely if a daemon takes a long time before it detaches from it's > > terminal and "goes daemon", then you can have a parent process put it in > > the background and direct it's output to some convenient log file. > > System V initscripts must not return until the services they start > are ready to use. Otherwise running initscript Y after initscript > X from /etc/rc?.d/ doesn't guarantee that Y can make use of X. > Providing such guarantees is the whole point of the system. (Or > have I somehow missed your point?)
Good point, I hadn't thought about that enough. Hmm, maybe we could make it the rule that anything with number 99 can return before it's finished initialising? -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
