Bug 951

Summary:	initscript system needs a 'clean' option
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Bruce A. Locke (RETIRED) <blocke>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0 RC6 r14
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Bruce A. Locke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-03-04 00:21:54 UTC

If a daemon, etc somehow quits or dies and is not stopped via the initscript the
initscript system reports '!!' and refuses to do anything.  You have to go into
/mnt/.init.d/started and manually delete the file.  This behavior should be
fixed so if it can't stop the service it removes the files and assumes the user
knows what he is doing or at least provide a 'clean' option to remove the files.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-03-04 02:15:51 UTC

This is implemented.  Use the "zap" option.