George Sweetnam wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2/13/07, Eric Shubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Erik A. Espinoza wrote:
>>> >> As long as there's 'svc' to control it, I see no need for putting
>>> >> links into
>>> >> /service/. For that matter, why is there a /service/ at all in the
>>> >> toaster?
>>> >> I'd be inclined to ditch it.
>>> >
>>> > Probably there since the Miguel Beccari days and hasn't been removed.
>>> > You can rmdir it without side effect.
>>> >
>>> >> If someone wanted to disable a stock service permanently, will >>
>>> 'svc -d'
>>> >> persist after a reboot, or would they need to modify the qmail script
>>> >> to run it?
>>> >
>>> > No, 'svc -d' is a temporary disable. The only way to permanently
>>> > remove it is to rm the dir. I usually leave everything running and
>>> > just use the firewall to control access.
>>> >
>>> > For example on my system I don't allow imap or pop3 without ssl. Since
>>> > tcpserver doesn't take any resources unless it is in use, then there
>>> > is no worries.
>>> >
>>> > Erik
>>> >
>>>
>>> I suppose you could create an init script that runs 'svc -d' to disable
>>> whatever service you didn't want.
>>>
>
> No no no no... this is not how you disable a service from running in
> daemontools. You can change it's normal state to "down" and leave it
> configured for future use.
> (like in a post i made last year explaining how to clear the read
> proctile status of daemontools from the processess list ... this one:
> readproctitle service errors: ..................... )
>
> If you do a svstat on the directory you will see status listings saying
> normally up or down (only services in an abnormal state will list a
> message saying they are different from the norm)
> svstat /var/qmail/supervise/*
>
> If you create a blank file named "down" in the service directory and
> then shut the service down its normal state will become "down" and will
> not run unless manually started... even after a reboot.
>
> touch down /var/qmail/supervise/pop3-ssl/down
>
> svstat /var/qmail/supervise/pop3-ssl
> /service/pop3-ssl: up (pid 23468) 2 seconds, normally down <---- lets
> you know it's different from how it should be
>
> svc -d /var/qmail/supervise/pop3-ssl
> /service/pop3-ssl: down 27 seconds
>
> svstat /var/qmail/supervise/pop3-ssl
>
>
> George S
>
Congratulations George, you scored (touch down - I love it)!.
This is really good stuff for us daemontools newbs. I'm thinking this really
needs to be on the wiki. Would anyone like to have a go at adding it?
Thanks George. You hit this one out of the park (to mix metaphors).
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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