init.d startup script

[Al Sparks]

Cool!  That worked.  I notice that you do check the status of the program
before giving the "OK".

Thanks.
   === Al

--- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> Al Sparks wrote:
   [snip] 
> The "daemon" function is intended to be used with programs that put 
> themselves in the background, and doesn't work so well if you have to do 
> it yourself wuth "&".
> 
> I had a similar problem with the initscripts for bittorrent (seed and 
> tracker programs) in Fedora Extras. What I ended up with was along the 
> lines of:
   [snip]