[Techtalk] killproc

[Andreas Berglund]

Maria McKinley wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
Hi!

> I run debian, and I have a script I want to stick in /etc/init.d/, but 
> it calls the function killproc, which does not seem to be available in 
> the debian package system. Does anyone know how killproc works, and how 
> I can re-write the line using kill?
> 
> killproc $MATHLM_BINARY 15
> 
> This same script calls . /etc/init.d/functions, which looks like it is a 
> redhat thing, and commenting it out seems to have no ill effect.
> 
> Finally, this line:
> [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 1
> 
> causes this error:
> 
> /etc/init.d/mathlm: line 24: [: =: unary operator expected

What you need to do is enclose ${NETWORKING} in quotes.
The reason for this is that NETWORKING is defined in 
/etc/sysconfig/network which you don't have on a debian system. This 
means that the variable you are trying to test is the empty string and 
the test is expanded to [ = "no" ] which is not a valid condition.


regards
Andreas