On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:57:22AM +0000, Chris Lear wrote:
> It's a Gentoo thing. Gentoo starts/stops/restarts services with commands
> like /etc/init.d/servicename start/stop/restart
> 
> The init scripts won't start if the process is in a "Running" state,

Presumably checked by the existence of a pid file? Is gentoo so lame that it
doesn't check to see if there actually *is* a process with that particular
pid?

That possibility hadn't occurred to me. But I'm a smug FreeBSD user :-)

Regards,

Brian.


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