Comment 2 for bug 203169

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:38:01AM -0700, Stephen Gildea wrote:
> If bug #208010 goes too far, this bug report doesn't go far enough.
> The "status" option should be required, not optional. Only if it can be
> counted on will it be useful.

Some initscripts cannot provide a status, because they do not launch
daemons.

> I'm interested in being able to check the status of services when I
> suspend and resume a laptop. Some services must be stopped before a
> suspend can happen; others must be restarted after a resume. But in all
> cases the restart-on-resume should happen only if the service was
> running before the suspend.
>
> The "hibernate" package provides nice wrappers for suspend and resume,
> including the ability to stop and restart services. But it can't
> reliably restart exactly the services that were running, because it
> cannot check which services were running.
>
> The set of services actually running may not be the list that was
> started automatically when the current run level was entered. Packages
> such as "whereami" may stop or start services based on the current
> network environment of a portable computer. Or the user may have
> stopped or started a service manually. So the only way to know whether
> a service is running is to ask it, via a "status" option.

Why not start by providing patches to init scripts ?
Debian initscripts sorely need a cleansing.

Cheers,
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Bill. <email address hidden>

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