[Kolab-devel] kolab.init scrip vs. kolabsrv

[Richard Bos]

Op dinsdag 25 mei 2010 06:10:45 schreef Thomas Spuhler:
> On Monday 24 May 2010 11:10:13 am Richard Bos wrote:
> > Op maandag 24 mei 2010 15:49:54 schreef Thomas Spuhler:
> > > Thanks for the script.  It may provide some ideas on how to improve my
> > >  script. But what is the purpose of " kolabsrv" What should it be used
> > > for?
> >
> > The kolab project uses a script called 'openpkg' to start services.  As
> > there is no such script for native distributions a conversion script is
> > needed. This is kolabsrv.  Look for the variable KOLABRC that defines
> > which script is to be used:
> > dist_conf/kolab:KOLABRC=${bindir}/openpkg
> > dist_conf/suse:KOLABRC=${sbindir}/kolabsrv
> >
> > templates/imapd.conf.template.in:RUNONCHANGE=@KOLABRC@ rc imapd restart
> > templates/httpd.conf.template.in:RUNONCHANGE=@KOLABRC@ rc apache reload
> 
> Well, the kolabsrv script doesn't ever finish because the kolabd script
>  from perl-kolab doesnt' complete when called the way it is in kolabsrv It
>  only completes when called like kolabd >& /dev/null &
> otherwise it hangs at the three backend lines in the eval section.
> 
> But imap and apache will (re-)start, so nothing bad will happen on
>  RUNOCHANGE This is probably why I haven't gotten any bugreports on Kolab
>  from the Mandriva users.

The RUNONCHANGE lines were just examples, there are many many more.  The init 
script /etc/init.d/kolabd runs the kolabd daemon (/usr/sbin/kolabd) in the 
background.  That way no init script keeps running in the foreground.

-- 
Richard