On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 17:28, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > S. Krishnan 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. > > And just for completness ... > every started demon has symlink in /var/lib/init.d/started > if u remove it, u can restart the demon paintless again >
Thanks to everyone who replied. I really appreciate the incredible helpfulness of everyone on the list. Regards, Krishnan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
