Jan,
What does this do to the IPMI UPD packet rate ? Increase or decrees ? Don't
do the patch till he answers.
Hank Bruning
President
JBlade
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Jan Safranek <jsafr...@redhat.com> wrote:
> I understand it as nobody is starting ipmevd directly from PID=1 except
> systemd and therefore the patch does not break anything I know of and
> helps systemd-based distros.
>
> Anyway, there is 'nodaemon' option for those who don't want to fork.
>
> Is there any other reason for this patch not being accepted?
>
> Jan
>
> On 08/13/2012 05:44 PM, Jim Mankovich wrote:
> > Jan,
> > I was reporting what read in the man pages for init on my Ubuntu 11.10
> > installation. I don't know that anyone would have a good reason for
> starting
> > ipmievd directly from init (via a script in /etc/init).
> >
> > -- Jim Mankovich | jm...@hp.com --
> >
> > On 8/13/2012 9:27 AM, Jan Safranek wrote:
> >> On 08/13/2012 05:07 PM, Jim Mankovich wrote:
> >>> Jan,
> >>>
> >>> In looking at the man pages for init, init(5) in particular, there is
> an
> >>> init script option
> >>> "expect fork" which you must use if the job's main process will
> >>> fork. So, if anyone is
> >>> using an init script to start up ipmievd today your change will require
> >>> them to change
> >>> their init script to use "expect fork". Otherwise, init won't be
> >>> monitoring the correct
> >>> process and the current init script won't work correctly.
> >> What init is it? From the description it looks like upstart. Does anyone
> >> uses ipmievd as upstart job? I don't have much experience with it. Even
> >> Ubuntu still ships ipmievd init script, i.e. ipmievd is started via init
> >> script /etc/init.d/ipmievd, which won't run under PID=1.
> >>
> >> Jan
> >>
> >>> -- Jim Mankovich | j...@hp.com | 303-440-4047 (MST) --
> >>>
> >>> On 8/13/2012 6:44 AM, Jan Safranek wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> instead of adding systemd code to ipmitool, I tried to find out what
> is
> >>>> really wrong with impievd so systemd cannot start it. It's quite
> >>>> difficult to debug systemd and a daemon together, but finally I got
> results.
> >>>>
> >>>> It turns out that the ipmievd does not fork() at all if it is started
> >>>> under PID=1. That was the last thing I would expect :), that's why it
> >>>> took so much time, I was looking for bugs elsewhere.
> >>>>
> >>>> Attached you can find another patch, now it's very simple and without
> >>>> any copyright notices.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there any other init system, which starts service with parent
> PID=1?
> >>>> I.e. does the patch break anything?
> >>>>
> >>>> Jan
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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