Bug 3255 – The /mnt/.init.d directory should be mentioned

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• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Joachim Blaabjerg (RETIRED) 2002-05-31 03:55:44 UTC]

Some users are having a hard time understanding how the /mnt/.init.d/started
etc. directories work, so I think there should be a quick guide to it in the docs.

<roman__> I have killed gpm myself (with kill xxx), there is no pid in /var/run
after that but /etc/init.d/gpm start faild with "* WARNING: gpm has already been
started. Any idea???
<styx> roman__: check /mnt/.init.d/started/gpm
<roman__> styx: ohhh, thank for answer... but what some note in some docs about
it????!!!!

[Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2002-10-11 01:20:55 UTC]

ALright, I am writing the guide, and I will put it on the main site.

//ZhEN

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-12-02 06:07:01 UTC]

We got docs:

  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml

Yes, they do not go into depth about /mnt/.init.d/, but that is for
a reason ... I may change in future to accomodate enhancements, or
speedups.

Main thing is, you should have all the tools in the initscript already
to manage them.  For this particular problem:

  # /etc/init.d/gpm

  Gentoo Linux RC-Scripts; http://www.gentoo.org/
   Copyright 2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL

  Usage: gpm [ options ]

  .....

    zap

      Reset a service that is currently stopped, but still marked as started,
      to the stopped state.  Basically for killing zombie services.

  .....

So for this, just do:

  # /etc/init.d/gpm zap start

Marking as closed.