On 10/24/2012 10:45 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 10/24/12 16:33, Doug Ledford wrote:
>> On 10/24/2012 9:27 AM, Alex Netes wrote:
>>> On 16:44 Fri 21 Sep     , Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>>>   start () {
>>>> +    if [ -e $pidfile ]; then
>>>
>>> On opensm segfault (happens one in a while :), pidfile won't be
>>> removed, so
>>> you won't be able to start the opensm again. I guess that same thing can
>>> happen on warm reboot.
>>
>> The stop action in the script should handle cleanup for you.  If it's
>> called, and a pid file exists, but the pid is not running, it should
>> remove the pid file and the subsystem lock file so that a clean start
>> works.
> 
> Hello Doug,
> 
> Do we really need the lock file ? On some Linux systems (Ubuntu) the
> /var/lock/subsys directory does not even exist.
> 
> Bart.
> 

It's an old holdover from LSB compliance.  *I* don't personally care one
way or another, but it's supposed to be there for ancient scripts that
look there to find out if a service is running.  Probably none of those
ancient scripts look for opensm as it wasn't around back when they were
written and the "new and improved" way of checking a service in LSB is
to run the init script with the status command.  But, that's why I have
it there.

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