When I shut down Tomcat I get the following:
* Caching service dependencies... [ ok ]
* Stopping Tomcat... [ !! ]
What does Caching service dependencies mean?
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Are you using Gentoo? When you stop a service, Baselayout checks if there are other services depending on the service you are stopping. If it is the case, they are stopped before, in order of dependencies.
Whenever you restart a service in a distro based on Baselayout, it runs the /sbin/depscan.sh script, which stores dependencies in /var/lib/init.d/depcache. You will observe however that the message is not always printed. That's because while depscan.sh is run each time, it only creates a new cache if any file in /etc/rc.d/, /etc/conf.d/or the file /etc/rc.conf is changed.
For more details, refer to the script itself.
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Yes, it's Gentoo. Is *caching* == *stopping*? – Arne Evertsson Dec 06 '10 at 09:06
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No, just updating the /var/lib/init.d/depcache file. All services are left in their current started/stopped state. – Prof. Moriarty Dec 07 '10 at 11:19