[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4244] services: Do not rely on /var/lock/subsys/ $service to determin if a service is running or not.

Wed Apr 25 10:58:35 CEST 2012

On 25 April 2012 10:52, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> BTW we should make is_service_running more robust by handling services
+>
+> Maybe, but unless this is happening before mga2, then there is little
+> point as all services have a status under systemd.
+>
+> There is also the problem of how do you check? We are already using the
+> exit code...
+
+for systemd, future is shinning.
+For older initscripts w/o units or when running under sysvinit,
+we sadly cannot disting between error code b/c status is KO
+from "I don't actually implement status" w/o first checking
+for usage (grepping output of "service foobar").
+
+Since that's an old issue, maybe should we just not care about it
+and wait for systemd to eventually kill sysvinit in mga3.
+
+I've also seen status displaying errors but returning 0 :-)
+But that cannot be fixed.
+