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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:52:01AM +0200, Pieter Lenaerts wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> anyone using wdm?
> the init script won't run here.
> if I put echo's in all branches of the test, none show up on "telinit run 
> wdm start", which makes me think the start() function is never run.
> 
> any suggestions?
> 
> the print_status success, and both silly echo messages were added by me as 
> checkpoints

Do you have wdm configured as display_manager in
/etc/sysconfig/facilities? Otherwise simpleinit won't run it at all as
only the configure provider of a facility gets used.

> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> PROGRAM=/usr/bin/wdm
> RUNLEVEL=5
> PROVIDES=display_manager
> 
> . /etc/init.d/smgl_init
> 
> # overrides default start function, ensuring
> # that wdm releases control back to init system.
> start ()
> {
>   echo "Starting wdm..."
>   if [[ -e /usr/bin/wdm ]] ; then
>           echo "I'm in the if part..."
>         print_status success
>         /usr/bin/wdm -config /etc/wdm/wdm-config &
>   else
>     echo "I'm in the else part..."
>     print_status failure
>     exit 1
>   fi
> }
> 
> 
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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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