If I run "rc-status" as an unpriviledged user, I get: * Could not local current runlevel in /var/lib/init.d/softlevel * Assuming current runrevel is 'single' Runlevel: single ... no matter what runlevel I'm in. This works for other people, so I'm assuming that this is related to having "svcmount=yes" and "svcfstype=tmpfs". The real-world problem is that there appears to be no way for a user to determine whether a service is running or not: rc-status doesn't work (as above: If I attempt to query all services with "-a", everything is shown as "stopped") I can't look in /var/lib/init.d/started (no permissions - and if I did chmod it, the change would be lost after a reboot), and "/etc/init.d/* status" fails too (which I'm going to file another bug report on). Am I doing something wrong here, or is the svcmount option broken in this case? What is the canonical way to determine whether a service is running, if not root (and preferably avoiding "ps")
you neglected to provide `emerge info` like the bug report page told you to please post the output of `ls -Rl /var/lib/init.d/` as an attachment re-open when you've done these
Created attachment 53875 [details] ls -lR /var/lib/init.d
emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r6,dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 10:05:03)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r6, 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/X11/xkb /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu " LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi adns alsa arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo bzip2 caps cdr crypt cscope cups curl dedicated dga directfb divx4linux dv dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal evo fam fastcgi fbcon fftw firebird flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran freetds freetype gb gcj gd gdbm ggi gif glut gnome gnomedb gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl icc-pgo imagemagick imap imlib informix innodb ipv6 jack java javamail javascript joystick jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kerberos krb4 ladcca lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libgda libwww lua lzo mad maildir mailwrapper matroska mbox mcal memlimit mikmod milter mmap mmx mng mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi mssql multislot mysql nas ncurses net network nls nntp nptl oci8 odbc oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl pic plotutils png pnp portaudio postgres ppds prelude python qdbm qt quicktime readline real samba sasl scanner sdl skey slang slp smartcard sndfile snmp socks5 speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 wmf wxwindows xanim xface xim xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xv xvid zeo zlib video_cards_radeon" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
verify the problem still occurs with baselayout-1.11.x+ looking at 1.11.x+, svcmount is mounted with a forced mode of 0644
err, 4 != 5
fixed in cvs, changed the 0644 to 0755
