Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The hal init script could really use a 'status' action, as defined in
the LSB specification [1]. Such an action allows a system administrator
to poll the service's init script and retrieve the status (running or
not) of the daemon.
Recently, a new function, status_of_proc(), was added
to /lib/lsb/init-functions that makes this relatively trivial. I've
attached a patch that adds this functionality.
-Tim 'Shaggy' Bielawa
[1]
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html
diff -u hal-0.5.11/debian/hal.init hal-0.5.11/debian/hal.init
--- hal-0.5.11/debian/hal.init
+++ hal-0.5.11/debian/hal.init
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@
do_stop
log_end_msg $?
;;
+ status)
+ status_of_proc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON $NAME && exit 0 || exit $?
+ ;;
restart|force-reload)
log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
@@ -83,7 +86,7 @@
log_end_msg $?
;;
*)
- log_success_msg "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
+ log_success_msg "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
diff -u hal-0.5.11/debian/control hal-0.5.11/debian/control
--- hal-0.5.11/debian/control
+++ hal-0.5.11/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
Package: hal
Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, adduser, pciutils, usbutils, udev (>= 0.065), dbus
(>= 0.61), lsb-base, hal-info (>= 20070402), pm-utils, mount (>= 2.13)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, adduser, pciutils, usbutils, udev (>= 0.065), dbus
(>= 0.61), lsb-base (>= 3.2-14), hal-info (>= 20070402), pm-utils, mount (>=
2.13)
Recommends: eject, libsmbios-bin [i386 amd64]
Suggests: gnome-device-manager
Description: Hardware Abstraction Layer
