Matthew Farrellee (mfarrellee+fedora@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > First, it wasn't sufficient for my service because anyone can run a copy of > my service. They just have to have their own config file. Think of it like > having both a system httpd, listening on port 80, and a user httpd, > listening on port 1134. Both process names can easily be "httpd". This is a > problem because /etc/init.d/functions' status() uses pidof, which can find > a user's process and confuse it with a system process. This means running > "service blah start" can silently fail because the init script thinks the > service is already running, when only the user's copy of the service is > running. To get around this I implemented my own rh_status, calling it > pid_status, that uses a pidfile to determine if the service is running. This seems to be a rather unusual case, though, especially since it implies you'd need customization just to specify an alternate config file. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
