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On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 10:45 +0100, Andrea Carpani wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm looking around for alternatives to runscript style init scripts as I |
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> don't like very much default gentoo scripts. While I do like the |
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> depencencies stuff I still don't get why a "status" on a script gives |
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> "started" if the process died badly, or why I need to manually do a zap |
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> (can't restart do it for me?). |
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The init-scripts only save state and don't check if the service is doing what it is supposed to do. |
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> I think status should be implemented in each init script and should give |
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> the real status of the service be it a ps|grep or whatever. |
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That would make init-scripts much more complicated and buggy I think. |
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While that would be optimal I don't see it happening in the near future. |
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Also it is really hard to reliably detect a service in a "working" |
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state, so you'd only check "does any process named sshd run?" which is |
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also mildly buggy :-) etc. etc. |
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It's not as easy as it sounds. |
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> One more thing I'd like to see is a init controlled check on the death |
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> of some daemons (sort of what daemontools does). |
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If I'm not mistaken a looooong time ago Gentoo used daemontools by default. |
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> This is why I'm asking: has anyone here seriously tested/used initng new |
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> scripts? |
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There are many different monitoring tools ... but none of them are easy |
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to integrate into baselayout. |
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Patrick |
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Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move |
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