Init scripts from BIRD RPMs

Ondrej Filip feela at network.cz
Thu Aug 1 16:35:27 CEST 2013


On 1.8.2013 16:32, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale wrote:
> Hi folks,

Hi Arnaud,
Thank you, I will look at it. However init script are deprecated at
Fedora.

		Ondrej

> 
> The RPM packages provided on bird.network.cz have a single init script
> for managing both bird and bird6. This script has some heuristic rules
> to determine which daemon(s) to manage, but its status subcommand is
> unable to recognize "I am managing only one daemon" from "the other one
> has crashed". Basically, "service bird status" is broken; furthermore,
> the "one init script for two daemons" model makes it awkward to manage
> BIRD with Puppet.
> 
> I have rebuilt the latest package locally with separate init scripts for
> bird and bird6 as a workaround for this issue. I have also ripped out
> the whole "check whether we need this daemon" logic as it makes no real
> sense with separate services.
> 
> HTH,
> 




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