[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Make init.d/skeleton a very simple init.d script?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 03 Feb 2014, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>   root at minerva:~# /etc/init.d/acpi-fakekey restart
>   [ ok ] Restarting acpi_fakekey daemon...done.
>   root at minerva:~# ./acpi-fakekey-new restart
>   [ ok ] Stopping acpi_fakekey daemon: acpi_fakekeyd.
>   [ ok ] Preparing to start acpi_fakekey daemon...done.
>   [ ok ] Starting acpi_fakekey daemon: acpi_fakekeyd.
>   root at minerva:~# 
> 
> Would such change be acceptable?  Here is the script in question
> reduced from 69 to 40 lines:

It is acceptable, however it is not optimal.  Some daemons, such as apache,
can be told to restart.  It is best if we implement restart as restart, not
as start-stop...

OTOH, we already support a restart override, so it really isn't a big deal.

> do_start_cmd_override() {
>     if [ -d /sys/devices/virtual/misc/uinput ]; then
> 	start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/acpi_fakekeyd
>     else
> 	return 0
>     fi
> }

I really hate hackjobs of daemons that can't even support pidfiles properly.
Bleh.

> I guess the changed behaviour could be slightly changed by rewriting
> do_restart to use do_stop_cmd and do_start_cmd instead of do_stop and
> do_start, but am not sure it is a good idea.

We could also avoid the need to override start/stop when no pidfile support
is available, by doing the right thing when PIDFILE is not set, something
like this:

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet ${PIDFILE:+--pidfile ${PIDFILE}} --exec $DAEMON --test >/dev/null

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