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Operating Systems Linux Need advice on coding a daemon Post 302309277 by pludi on Tuesday 21st of April 2009 01:34:39 PM
Old 04-21-2009
What files and programs are installed is usually tracked by the package manager, eg for Debian and derivates:
Code:
# aptitude search ~i #Shows installed packages
# dpkg -L make # Show files installed by "make" package

And honestly, an admin that didn't do proper documentation from the beginning probably won't start all of a sudden (and probably isn't very good at his/her job anyways)

If you want to understand 'configure', download the source of any program, and build it yourself. If you want to understand it very well, take a look at it's source (it's usually just a shell script). If you want to understand it, and the whole build process, very, very well, take a look at Linux from Scratch.

/var/run has some information about a service. If that service decides it wants to share that information in just that directory. Better would be to run the init script with the 'status' parameter (if supported) or check if the process turns up in ps -ef.

By the way, there's only one startup manager, /sbin/init, and it works the same on any Linux distribution, and most SystemV UNIXes.
 

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dh_bugfiles

DH_BUGFILES(1)							     Debhelper							    DH_BUGFILES(1)

NAME

       dh_bugfiles - install bug reporting customization files into package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_bugfiles [-A] [debhelperoptions]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_bugfiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing bug reporting customization files (bug scripts and/or bug control
       files and/or presubj files) into package build directories.

FILES

       debian/package.bug-script
	   This is the script to be run by the bug reporting program for generating a bug report template. This file is installed as
	   usr/share/bug/package in the package build directory if no other types of bug reporting customization files are going to be installed
	   for the package in question. Otherwise, this file is installed as usr/share/bug/package/script. Finally, the installed script is given
	   execute permissions.

       debian/package.bug-control
	   It is the bug control file containing some directions for the bug reporting tool. This file is installed as
	   usr/share/bug/package/control in the package build directory.

       debian/package.bug-presubj
	   The contents of this file are displayed to the user by the bug reporting tool before allowing the user to write a bug report on the
	   package to the Debian Bug Tracking System. This file is installed as usr/share/bug/package/presubj in the package build directory.

OPTIONS

       -A, --all
	   Install debian/bug-* files to ALL packages acted on when respective debian/package.bug-* files do not exist. Normally, debian/bug-*
	   will be installed to the first package only.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.developers.gz

       debhelper(1)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>

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