On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:50:35AM -0500, Brian Millett wrote: > Question to the sages: > Why? If the lock file is so important to the success or failure of the > execution of the script, then why not have the rc script write the lock > file? The rc script won't know that the service is started or stopped--only the init.d script will. It is the responsibility of the init.d script to manage the lock file. It prevents e.g. starting the same service twice.
