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