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From: Alex J Lennon <ajlennon@dynamicdevices.co.uk>
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On 16/06/2014 10:24, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 16 June 2014 10:20, Alex J Lennon <ajlennon@dynamicdevices.co.uk> wrote:
>> OK. Thanks Ross. I don't suppose you can recommend a "golden initscript"
>> somewhere on the interwebs that covers the all bases, including for LSB
>> functions present / absent?
>>
>> It seems to me such a script might be a useful thing to have as a
>> reference somewhere on the wiki.
> Not off the top of my head, sorry.  initscripts are pretty tricky to
> write correctly... :/  there are helpers such as start-stop-daemon
> that are useful but because there's no standard way to start a daemon,
> whether it should write a PID or not, whether it forks or not, and so
> on, there's no "canonical" example.
>

OK thanks anyway Ross. Good to know.

Cheers, Alex