Cleaning up init scripts metadata

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at cs.toronto.edu
Mon Jan 19 17:40:06 UTC 2004


On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Behdad Esfahbod (behdad at cs.toronto.edu) said:
> > # processname: <daemonname>
> > # config:      </path/to/conffile1>
> > # config:      </path/to/conffile2>
> > # pidfile:     </path/to/pidfile>
>
> These are all linuxconf extensions, as I recall. They're not
> a) standard b) currently used c) required.

So, what is system-config-services using to get the pid number of
the running service?

> > Then comes line marked with F1.  This is why I started the whole
> > boring audit session.  Some errors I have marked about F1 is:
> >
> > [F1RC]: means that the script includes /etc/init.d/functions
> > instead of /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions.
>
> /etc/init.d/functions is the canonical path. The problem
> is that we can't switch to that in the file system due
> to upgrade fun.
>
> Bill





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