Date: 06 Jul 2000 13:43:49 +0200 From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@melaten.rwth-aachen.de> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/rplay Makefile ports/audio/rplay/files rplayd.sh ports/chinese/xemacs/files xemacs20.sh ports/comms/conserver Makefile ports/comms/conserver/files conserver.sh ports/comms/hylafax/files hylafax.sh.sample ... Message-ID: <kqr997lc0a.fsf@cip12.melaten.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn's message of "Wed, 05 Jul 2000 15:17:21 %2B0200" References: <1427.962803041@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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[moved to -ports] Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> writes: > On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 05:37:07 MST, Thomas Gellekum wrote: > > > Log: > > As threatened on freebsd-ports: all startup scripts know about the two > > options `start' and `stop' now (unless I have forgotten any). This allows > > us to call the scripts from /etc/rc.shutdown with the correct option. > > Are you sure it's wise to use killall? I presume you used it > everywhere, although I only looked at my own port, exim. > > It seems to me that it's better to look for a pidfile where one is > specifically created for this purpose. I used that for apache, because I know it creates a pidfile. I'm no psychic, and I don't run all the ports I've touched, so I resorted to calling killall(1) where I didn't know about pidfiles. In principle, this is what init(8) does on shutdown, so it shouldn't have broken anything. tg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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