Elias Levy created FLINK-4326:
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             Summary: Flink start-up scripts should optionally start services 
on the foreground
                 Key: FLINK-4326
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4326
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Startup Shell Scripts
    Affects Versions: 1.0.3
            Reporter: Elias Levy


This has previously been mentioned in the mailing list, but has not been 
addressed.  Flink start-up scripts start the job and task managers in the 
background.  This makes it difficult to integrate Flink with most processes 
supervisory tools and init systems, including Docker.  One can get around this 
via hacking the scripts or manually starting the right classes via Java, but it 
is a brittle solution.

In addition to starting the daemons in the foreground, the start up scripts 
should use exec instead of running the commends, so as to avoid forks.  Many 
supervisory tools assume the PID of the process to be monitored is that of the 
process it first executes, and fork chains make it difficult for the supervisor 
to figure out what process to monitor.  Specifically, jobmanager.sh and 
taskmanager.sh should exec flink-daemon.sh, and flink-daemon.sh should exec 
java.



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