On 05/08/2013 03:18 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2013 20:55:35 +0200 > Ambroz Bizjak <ambr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Init.d scripts are programs - they could probably do just about >>> anything. >> >> They couldn't monitor a process and restart it when it crashes, as >> specified by the restart options in the unit file. That is, without >> significant modifications in the way OpenRC works, such as adding a >> monitoring process, or hacks such as launching a daemon that monitor >> that process specifically. > > Sounds like a great feature. A crashed process is a buggy one, and I > would want to investigate said program before I relaunched it, and not > have it automatically relaunched as if nothing had happened.
That's highly, highly, highly use-case dependent. If it's a non-critical service, or in a non-critical environment, that's one thing. If it's a service whose downtime can be measured in value lost, that's quite another. I've had setups where, yes, I had it respawn. But I also wanted it to send me a core dump so I could investigate. Were I in that circumstance again, I'd automate collection and analysis of the dumps to produce heat maps for me.
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