[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#492625: hal init script action status

[Tim Bielawa]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

The hal init script could really use a 'status' action, as defined in
the LSB specification [1].  Such an action allows a system administrator
to poll the service's init script and retrieve the status (running or
not) of the daemon.

Recently, a new function, status_of_proc(), was added
to /lib/lsb/init-functions that makes this relatively trivial.  I've
attached a patch that adds this functionality.

-Tim 'Shaggy' Bielawa

[1]
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html
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