[proofreading] Re: Initscripts management proposal

[Vincent Renardias <vincent@ldsol.com>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> Facility names
> ==============
> 
> Facility names that begin with a dollar sign ('$') are system facility
> names, defined by the LSB, and MUST be provided by distributions.  LSB
> applications should not provide system facilities.  This document
> defines the following system facility names:
> 
> 	$local_fs	all remote filesystems are mounted

         ^^^^^              ^^^^^^
                            local

> This specification shall pre-define the following script names as:
> 
> 	apmd atd crond dhclient dhcpcd gpm halt identd inet
> 	httpd kudzu klogd lpd mcserv named nfs nfslock pcmcia
> 	portmap random routed rstatd rusersd rwhod sendmail smb
> 	snmpd sshd syslog xfs xntpd ypbind

I'd object to 'httpd' instead of 'apache'. What If I want to run both
roxen for normal sites and apache for SSL sites?
Also it's not consistant with 'sendmail' (why not 'smtpd' then?)

> 	killproc basename [signal]
> 
> 		    This stops the specified program.	The program is 
> 		    found using the algorithm given by pidofproc.  If  a
> 		    signal is specified, the program is sent that
> 		    signal.  Otherwise, a SIGTERM followed by a SIGKILL
> 		    after some number of seconds is sent.
> 		    [ Same as sysvinit package ]
> 
> 	pidofproc basename

to be consistant with the other names those 2 functions should rather be
named kill_proc and pid_of_proc IMHO...



	Cordialement,

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