On 11/01/2008, Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hiyas, > > a package I comaintain (pm-utils) uses a lockfile. Because it may happen that > the computer crashes when the program is used, the lockfile may be there > already when no instance of pm-utils is running. Therefore the lockfile > should be deleted on startup. Do I need to write an initscript for this? > Which is imho not 100% correct, because this "service" should never be > deactivated. Is there a directory , where one could drop a file for this? The > only one I can think of would be /etc/sysconfig/modules, where ever .modules > file is executed at startup. The original feature request to split up > rc.sysinit in a rc.sysinit.d structure is more than five years old (which > would be a good solution here), so I doubt that filing a feature request will > help here. But maybe someone knows a better solution that the two I can think > of. Have a look at the logic used in the fail2ban init file - the start operation checks for a running fail2ban process. If non is found, it is safe to delete the lock file. As it happens, I just noticed that dovecot doesn't properly handle this situation either. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
