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. [1] "database", as in, "some way to store PIDs and which initscript they belong to", not necessarily as in "libdb", and absolutely not as in "SQL-engine with data files". -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
