Re: Jensen boot question/problem

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

erik@avalon.harvard.edu wrote:

> After snooping around in /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap and
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions, it appears that the scripts are hanging when
> trying to get the PID of a nonexistant process
....
> 
> Are there any known problems with the RH6.0 init scripts?

A function which checks a status of processes started by scripts
from /etc/rc.d/init.d/ is obviously broken.  No idea if this is relevant
to your troubles but this is one way to fix it:


--- etc/rc.d/init.d/functions~	Thu Oct 15 10:07:52 1998
+++ etc/rc.d/init.d/functions	Mon Jul 26 19:57:38 1999
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@
 	        echo "$1 (pid $pid) is running..."
 	        return 0
         else
-                pid=`ps auxww | grep '[^[]'$1 | awk '{print $2}'`
+                pid=`ps auxww | grep '[^[]'$1 \
+		    | grep -v 'sh \.\/' | awk '!/grep/{print $2}'`
                 if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then
                         echo "$1 (pid $pid) is running..."
                         return 0

   Michal