On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:27:05PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > I can see how the idea of having some programmatic view of dependencies > > is appealing, but the problem is that you can't just say "X depends on Y > > being up" and be done with it, because how do you define "up" for Y? > > There isn't really a good way except for testing with a daemon-specific > > bit of shell scripting, which is one of Gerrit's main points. > > There is one big difference: instead of postfix checking port 60000 > for postgrey, let it ask postgrey whether it's "up". postgrey knows > best what it means for it to be up, so it should be consulted. Now, > if the port changes, the postfix init scripts will just continue to > work.
Do you mean in the manner I described immediately below what you quoted, or do you have something else in mind? _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel

