[Pm-utils] RFC - PATCH to functions.in to support Slackware init

[Victor Lowther]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:25 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Stefan Seyfried <seife at suse.de> wrote:
> > Robby Workman wrote:
> >> Attached is an "idea" patch - in other words, I don't intend for this
> >> to be considered for committing upstream; rather, I'm really just
> >> wanting to flesh out whether what I have in mind is horribly bad. :-)
> >>
> >> Here's the patch (it's also attached, in case some mail clients munge
> >> the content.  My thoughts are *in* the patch ; responses?  :-)
> >
> >> +# Also, we (Slackware) have some init scripts that don't have a "status"
> >> +# directive in them, so maybe using that to check if something is running
> >> +# won't always work.
> >
> > OTOH "service" and the "status" method of init scripts is LSB since quite some
> > time IIUC, so why not just fix the slackware init scripts?
> 
> service is not LSB. It's just a wrapper that makes initializing
> services straightforward across distros. The LSB says that all
> services should be installed in /etc/init.d, but it says nothing about
> how the system will actually execute the scripts. Maybe service should
> be in the LSB, but it's not.
> 
> http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/initsrcinstrm.html
> 
> Robby's point about ambiguous service names is valid, though. Right
> now, we only call stopservice() for ntpd, but it could be called ntp
> or nettime or anything else since there's no convention for that.

Which is why I would like to see some of the hooks moved into te
packages they are relevant to.  ntpd is a big example of one such hook,
NetworkManager is another.


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Victor Lowther
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