[hpoj-devel] 2nd try at RedHat init script

[Timothy L. <ti...@wo...>]

First off, Dag, sorry about the HTML format.

I've made some changes to the script, and this time I'm including it as
an attachment
-- hope that solves the problem.  Guess I'll stick to text format with
this list just so everyone could read the stuff...  <grin>

Joe Piolunek wrote:

> The script reports success even if the daemon doesn't really start. It
> happened when the paths were incorrect. Add some error control features
> and/or a message to indicate failure if it occurs. Don't create a lock file
> unless the daemon sucessfully starts.
>

The script now checks for ptal-printd and the config file before
launching the daemon and reporting success.  It's hard to check for
errors because the daemon doesn't fork itself and return.  (Maybe it's a
feature David will consider adding???  <grin>)


> I think David would like users to be able to start a copy of the daemon, so
> could you make that easier? /var/lock/subsys is only writable by root, so a
> user's lock file would need to go somewhere else.
>

The script was written with root in mind:  to make administrating the
system easier.  It doesn't stop the user from running a local copy of
the darmon.  (But it *will* kill all daemons when stopped.)


     Timothy Lee