If the daemon is configured to restart the service, then it will fail to execute.
What daemon is servicing both POP and IMAP? On Jun 16, 2013 2:40 PM, "Luca Filipozzi" <lfili...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 08:28:18PM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > I have a question concerning a bugreport I got, but that could be quite > > general. > > > > Let's say a daemon provides POP and IMAP, and is configured to provide > both, > > in a pop.conf and imap.conf. > > > > How should the daemon ideally fail in case one of the two configuration > files > > is incorrect but the other is fine? > > > > Should it log the situation and start the service that it's able to > start? Or > > should it just not start at all? > > If it's a single process that listens on two ports (POP & IMAP) then I > would > not start at all. > > A system administrator is likely to interpret that a running process > indicates > success start. What would trigger him to check that the process is > listening > on both ports. > > Also, in the start up script, how would you indicate that the daemon is > 'half > started'. > > Hope this helps, > > Luca > > -- > Luca Filipozzi > http://www.crowdrise.com/SupportDebian > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130616183946.ga4...@emyr.net > >
