Re: [hpoj-devel] ptal-printd init script for RedHat

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Joe Piolunek wrote:
> 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.
Although I think it should be OK for non-root users to start ptal-printd,
the init script and .conf file are special in that they indicate the
"official" policy for a system, so I think it's OK that they are root only.

Timothy Lee wrote:
> 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.)
In other words, users can run the daemon directly, but not the init script.
If the init script is called to stop ptal-printd, then all instances of the
daemon are killed, even those started without the init script.  Sounds
reasonable to me.

Timothy Lee wrote:
> 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>)
Yes, I'll fix that.  Would it make more sense to fork or not fork by default
(changeable by a command-line option)?

David