Comment 8 for bug 203169

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:24:56 +0200, Bill Allombert
<email address hidden> said:

>> I think rather than trying to decree a policy, and over engineer an
>> optional action for an init script meant mostly for user
>> consumption, we should let the developers come up with whatever
>> works best for them. Heck, even the LSB says nothing more about the
>> status action (apart from specifying some exit codes).

> Then the proposal is quite useless. Policy already allow initscript
> to implement a status option. The only point of mention it in policy
> is to get some amount of consistency among those that implement it.

>> At this point, there are no existing standards or practices for it
>> to warrant a more explicit policy; once we figure out, in practice,
>> what would work best, we can _then_ try making policy, IMHO.

> At keast the LSB document it, see LSB 20.2:

> status print the current status of the service

> If the status action is requested, the init script will return the
> following exit status codes. {SNIP]

> What is exactly printed is distro-specific, but as far as Debian is
> concerned, we should propose something consistent with what is
> printed by the other options(start stop, etc).

        Then I suggest you come up with a draft, see how it could be
 implemented by a bunch of scripts in /etc/init.d, incorporate the
 feedback that shall result, and go at it again; when the design of
 the status action has stabilized, and field tested, _then_ we come
 back and implement this in policy.

        Perhaps you should start out with coming up with a
 recommendation in developers reference, and see how well that initial
 recommendation plays out? I think it would be a good idea to put the
 final, poliched status action specification into policy, but I think
 doing initial design by policy is not such a great idea.

        manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <email address hidden> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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