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In OpenSUSE 11.4 sysvinit-tools package contains startproc, killproc and checkproc binaries which according to /etc/init.d/skeleton file and OpenSUSE documentation should be used in Sys-V type of init scripts. What is the idea of those binaries? Couldn't one achieve the same functionality of startproc, killproc and checkproc with nice, sudo, sleep and other similar tools?

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In OpenSUSE 11.4 sysvinit-tools package contains startproc, killproc and checkproc binaries which according to /etc/init.d/skeleton file and OpenSUSE documentation should be used in Sys-V type of init scripts. What is the idea of those binaries? Couldn't one achieve the same functionality of startproc, killproc and checkproc with nice, sudo, sleep and other similar tools?

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Let's first define the specific programs:
startproc

startproc: startproc and the LSB variant start_daemon check for all processes of the specified executable and starts it if no processes are found. startproc does not use the pid to search for a process but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable

killproc

killproc sends signals to all processes that use the spec­ified executable. If no signal name is specified, the signal SIGTERM is sent. killproc does not use the pid to send a signal to a pro­cess but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable

checkproc

checkproc checks for running processes that use the speci­fied executable. checkproc does not use the pid to verify a process but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable.

nice, sudo, sleep do nothing related to the above programs.

Off course you could do the same logic from kill/start/checkproc in any scripting language (bash for ex.) or other compiled language. But the purpose of those programs is to offer this functionality to all users that need it, so they don't have to bother to write/rewrite the same logic on different distributions and different OSs.

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Let's first define the specific programs:
startproc

startproc: startproc and the LSB variant start_daemon check for all processes of the specified executable and starts it if no processes are found. startproc does not use the pid to search for a process but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable

killproc

killproc sends signals to all processes that use the spec­ified executable. If no signal name is specified, the signal SIGTERM is sent. killproc does not use the pid to send a signal to a pro­cess but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable

checkproc

checkproc checks for running processes that use the speci­fied executable. checkproc does not use the pid to verify a process but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable.

nice, sudo, sleep do nothing related to the above programs.

Off course you could do the same logic from kill/start/checkproc in any scripting language (bash for ex.) or other compiled language. But the purpose of those programs is to offer this functionality to all users that need it, so they don't have to bother to write/rewrite the same logic on different distributions and different OSs.

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Let's first define the specific programs:
startproc

startproc: startproc and the LSB variant start_daemon check for all processes of the specified executable and starts it if no processes are found. startproc does not use the pid to search for a process but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable

killproc

killproc sends signals to all processes that use the spec­ified executable. If no signal name is specified, the signal SIGTERM is sent. killproc does not use the pid to send a signal to a pro­cess but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable

checkproc

checkproc checks for running processes that use the speci­fied executable. checkproc does not use the pid to verify a process but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable.

nice, sudo, sleep do nothing related to the above programs.

Off course you could do the same logic from kill/start/checkproc in any scripting language (bash for ex.) or other compiled language. But the purpose of those programs is to offer this functionality to all users that need it, so they don't have to bother to write/rewrite the same logic on different distributions and different OSs.

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Let's first define the specific programs:
startproc

startproc: startproc and the LSB variant start_daemon check for all processes of the specified executable and starts it if no processes are found. startproc does not use the pid to search for a process but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable

killproc

killproc sends signals to all processes that use the spec­ified executable. If no signal name is specified, the signal SIGTERM is sent. killproc does not use the pid to send a signal to a pro­cess but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable

checkproc

checkproc checks for running processes that use the speci­fied executable. checkproc does not use the pid to verify a process but the full path of the corresponding program which is used to identify the executable.

nice, sudo, sleep do nothing related to the above programs.

Off course you could do the same logic from kill/start/checkproc in any scripting language (bash for ex.) or other compiled language. But the purpose of those programs is to offer this functionality to all users that need it, so they don't have to bother to write/rewrite the same logic on different distributions and different OSs.

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