On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:11:53 -0600, DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nathan Coulson wrote:
> 
> >
> > I tried to make our functions file LSB compliant, but I left a few
> > things in to avoid troubles with our bootscripts.  [LSB mentions
> > start_daemon, we have loadproc.  loadproc/killproc call
> > evaluate_retval at the end, and we still check for PIDFILE (But we
> > have the new -p [pidfile] option for a few functions)].
> >
> 
> It's been a while since I've done anthing with the new bootscripts, but
> can we do a little magic with the loadproc function WRT already running,
> and then do a very simple function for start_daemon that contians only
> 'loadproc $@' ?  Maybe make the already running waning conditional based
> on a value that is set only if loadproc is called from start_daemon or
> something to that effect.  Then in a future release, take out loadproc
> completely by renaming it start_daemon (once everything has been
> updated to use the new functions.  Perhaps I'm missing something
> else here WRT evaluate_retval, but it'd seem the echo_ok could be
> replaced by log_success_msg, echo_fail log_fialure_msg, etc.
> 
> -- DJ Lucas

echo_* go back one line, then print OK/FAIL/WARN
log_message_* just print a message, then OK/FAIL/WARN

about start_daemon/loadproc, I still was not sure if we wanted to move
to LSB compliancy right now or not.  [It means other bootscripts would
have to analyze the return codes of start_daemon/loadproc, as well as
killproc].
-- 
Nathan Coulson (conathan)
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