On 21 Jan 2004 10:22:07 -0500 "S. Krishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having problems with daemon init on Gentoo. Whenever, for example, > due to a misconfigured file, a daemon with an /etc/init.d file does not > start, (typically sendmail, bind, etc.), whenever I try to restart it > using the /etc/init.d/<daemon> restart, or a stop/ start sequence, or > just a plain start, it refuses to start again. The error message says > that the daemon has already started, in spite of the fact that it did > not start. If I then try to stop it, I am told that it was not > started. The only way to get the daemon up again is to reboot or change > the runlevel and then switch back to the default runlevel. > > I am sure there is an easier way to do this. Yes. "/etc/init.d/<daemon> zap", then "/etc/init.d/<daemon> start" :-) -- Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt
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