Brian May <[email protected]> writes: > On 10 October 2014 10:31, Peter Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What else does it do better? >> > > It *can* replace annoying init.d scripts, that are deceptively hard to > write, often are very buggy and suffer from various race conditions. > > e.g. > > have lost count of the number of times have "/etc/init.d/daemon restart" > only to find the daemon never stopped properly in the first place, or tried > to start again while it was still running and both copies exit. > [...] > Yes, sure, well written init.d scripts wouldn't have these problems, > however the fact is these problems do get into distributions, and often go > unnoticed by the responsible maintainers. "It works for me!"
There was a plan to deal with the easy 90% of these: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/metainit It was started at a Debian conference where people were pushing for upstart in Debian; it hasn't really been touched since, but since sysvinit hasn't CHANGED since, it still works for me. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
