--- Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nicolas Mailhot writes: > > > > On Lun 1 août 2005 06:22, John M. Gabriele wrote: > > > > > Hmm... Why didn't the rpm packager create at least a simple > > > readme saying how to stop and start this software? > > > > Because this is Red Hat administration 101 and all the system daemons are > > managed this way (mtas, httpd servers, etc). In fact it's not even Red Hat > > specific because this kind of initialisation script is standardised at the > > LSB level. > > This way to start daemons comes from UNIX System V, AFAIK. That makes > in January 1983, a mere 22 years ago. Unless it was actually part of > SVR4, in which case it was 1988, a mere 17 years ago. > > Andrew. Thanks for the info. I'd never seen the "service" command per se, but I have of course used the scripts in /etc/init.d to start and stop system services. That said, I still think it should be mentioned in a Fedora-specific (or, better yet, JPP-specific) readme because: A. It's different from the way Tomcat is started on other major platforms (like Debian) -- at least, when you install the binary package right from Jakarta (haven't ever apt-get installed the Debian Tomcat .deb). B. It's different from the way described in the offical Tomcat docs. C. It's different from the way described right there in the readme that comes with FC4. As Nicolas suggested, it's probably best to submit a tiny little file/patch to JPP, asking for a README.JPP.txt with that little bit of content. As a side-effect, it would also raise the visibility of the JPackage project. Thanks, ---J ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
