On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 09:27:53PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> as to the rc.d thing; the daemon *does* start and is running when
> rc_check examines it, but exits afterwards.
# cat -n /etc/rc.d/rc.subr | sed -n '117,129p'
117 while true; do # no real loop, only needed to break
118 if type rc_pre >/dev/null; then
119 rc_do rc_pre || break
120 fi
121 # XXX only checks the status of the return code,
122 # and _not_ that the daemon is actually running
123 rc_do rc_start || break
124 if [ -n "${_bg}" ]; then
125 sleep 1
126 rc_do rc_wait start || break
127 fi
128 rc_do rc_write_runfile
129 rc_exit ok
Not true, there's no rc_check at all. Any idea what's the logic behind?
Reporting 'ok' has no real sense. I understand that my own problem was
configuration, true, but having no check and just echoing 'ok' is strange
to me.
jirib