Re: [gentoo-user] How does OpenRC know if a service is crashed?

[Alarig Le Lay]

Hi Manuel

On jeu.  2 août 12:30:16 2018, Manuel Mommertz wrote:
> Hey Alarig,
>
> I suggest to read the man-page of start-stop-daemon to get an detailed idea of
> how it works.
>
> You use '--name paste-py' which tells start-stop-daemon to look for a process
> named 'paste-py' to see if it is still running, when you request the status.
> As your shell-script runs daemonize.py as the last step and then quits itself,
> there is no process with the name 'paste-py' and therefore the reported status
> is 'crashed'.
> Use '--pidfile /opt/paste-py/paste.pid' instead. With this, the status is
> determined by reading the pid from the file and then looking if this pid is
> still running.

Thanks a lot it’s now displayed as running :)
bulbizarre ~ # rc-status | grep paste
 paste-py                                                          [  started  ]

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alarig