hardy init script status action

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 14:15 -0400, Mathias Gug wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 06:06:50PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 14:02 -0400, Mathias Gug wrote:
> > 
> > >  * Add a status action to the init script for the following 9 packages:
> > >     apache2, at, bind9, cron, samba, dovecot, openssh, sysklogd, udev
> > > 
> > A status argument for the udev init script is absolutely pointless.
> > 
> > If it's not running, your system is broken.
> 
> I've added udev to the list because there is udevd running on my system.
> If you think it's pointless, that is one less package to touch.
> 
Why do you need to know the status of daemons?  Are you writing some
kind of front-end?

If you can use ps to see the daemons running, aren't you inherently
giving yourself the answer?

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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