hardy init script status action

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 15:17 -0400, Mathias Gug wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 06:51:03PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > 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:
> > > 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?
> 
> /etc/init.d/apache2 status is probably one the first command I've
> learned when I started as a sysadmin. And I'd use it on a daily basis
> whenever something goes wrong on a machine. And this is the one thing
> that I miss from Redhat/FC - the status action in the init script.
> 
> After talking with other linux sysadmins, it seems that it's common
> knowledge that you can check that your services are running with their
> corresponding init script.
> 
> > If you can use ps to see the daemons running, aren't you inherently
> > giving yourself the answer?
> 
> Sure - but you can put more knowledge in the status action script to
> make sure that the service is operational. 
> 
> For example, the status action of the mysql init script connects to
> mysqld to make sure it's still responding. In that case using the ps
> command wouldn't be as useful as "/etc/init.d/mysql status".
> 
None of these things seem to be reasons to break Beta Freeze to get them
in for Hardy?

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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