On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:51:03PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote: > > Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > That much is easy, but how do you turn a process ID into a script that > > > can be invoke-rc.d'd? > > > > Make it part of the Debian spec? > > > > define a known script name (logging-daemon) that must exist in > > /etc/init.d/ and can be a symlink to another one. > > > > submit a small patch to each logging daemon to add/remove this link when > > the package is installed/removed? > > Sounds ugly to me. > > Here's another suggestion: start-stop-daemon is in a /very/ good > position to know which PID belongs to which initscript. Patch it so that > it writes the PIDs to some "database"[1] somewhere; then patch > invoke-rc.d to be able to use that "database". Probably best to do that > through some well-defined interface, rather than having invoke-rc.d > directly reading out that db, though.
It already does store the pid if called with the --pidfile option. Just make it mandatory. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
