start/stop scripts don't work

[armin]

hi!

i emerged mysql and apache. after configuration i wanted to start them.

/etc/init.d/mysql and /etc/init.d/apache are the default versions.

i can start the servers 'by hand' but
/etc/init.d/xxx start
does NOTHING and
/etc/init.d/xxx stop
says nothing is started.

this is very annoying i did put an echo statement after in the start function, but it doesn't get called ...

i can start /usr/sbin/apache and safe_mysqld without any problem and the configuration works...

whatsup?

[fifo]

Not sure what the problem is. Does running /sbin/depscan.sh make any difference?

[armin]

there where references in

/mnt/.init.d/failed/

i deleted them, and now everything works. (there was an error the first time i started the scripts)

this should be in the documentation!!! (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml)

BTW: why the hell is in mounted in /mnt, it should definately go into /var ... (FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.11.html)

there should be an "/etc/init.d/xxx cleanup" to remove this (zap does nothing in this department)

Thanks!

[pjp]