on Monday 03/30/2009 Alan McKinnon([email protected]) wrote
> On Monday 30 March 2009 12:33:48 Dale wrote:
> > John covici wrote:
>
> > > The other problem is that once in a while a service dies -- named did
> > > this -- and it would not let me stop the service and when I tried to
> > > restart I got the message that the service was already started and it
> > > would not start. How do I tell openrt or whomever that something has
> > > already stopped?
> > >
> > > Any assistance on these would be appreciated.
> >
> > If something is stopped but init thinks it is still running, try the zap
> > option. /etc/init.d/<service> zap
> >
> > Not sure on the rest. Hope that helps tho.
>
> His real problem isn't baselayout2 and openrc, it's named.
>
> named is notorious for crappy stupid behaviour when being stopped and
> confusing the init scripts. It happens to me so often that now I tossed out
> the init script and do it manually.
>
> One day when my country's currency is worth something I can afford ans then
> I
> can get rid of named and it's start-up crap forever. It's still the only
> service I ever have to use "zap" on
Thanks, at least I can restart with no difficulties after using zap.
Spamd has the opposite behavior, the init script tells me it died when
its actually running.
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John Covici
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