2013/4/25 Romain Beauxis <[email protected]>:
> 2013/4/24 Leonard de Ruijter <[email protected]>:
>> Hello Romain and others,
>
>   Hi Leonard,
>
>> I've made some significant progress and now have a working git
>> buildpackage for Arch Linux.
>
> Thanks for this work!
>
>> Before I'm going to upload it to the Arch
>> User Repo, I have the following remarks/questions:
>> 1. The logrotate script contains the following postrotate script:
>>    postrotate
>>      for liq in /var/run/liquidsoap/*.pid ; do
>>        if test $liq != '/var/run/liquidsoap/*.pid' ; then
>>          start-stop-daemon --stop --signal USR1 --quiet --pidfile $liq
>>        fi
>>      done
>>    endscript
>> Although start-stop-daemon is available in the arch repository, it isn't
>> installed by default. I also didn't find the package installed by
>> default on an OpenSuse system. How about using the more generic way of
>> accomplishing the same?
>>    postrotate
>>      for liq in /var/run/liquidsoap/*.pid ; do
>>        if test $liq != '/var/run/liquidsoap/*.pid' ; then
>>          kill -s USR1 `cat $liq`
>>        fi
>>      done
>>    endscript
>> It is still somewhat buggy. Imagine a situation where a liquidsoap
>> daemon closes and the pidfile isn't being removed. I need to dive in
>> this somewhat more to give a better solution to let the logrotate script
>> whether the process is running before killing.
>
> I think this is a very good suggestion. A lot of daemon-related things
> in liquidsoap are very debian-specifics and we should get rid of them
> or make then more portable.
>
> As for the case where process has closed but PID file is still here, I
> do not think it is a big deal and it's probably very unlikely that
> another process has this PID and that a USR1 signal to that process
> would cause any problem.
>
> I will review this later and commit something, most probably your
> version later (not in the next 10 days tho I fear), in the mean time
> let us know what you end-up using for your package..
>
>> Also, it would be nice if
>> liquidsoap removes te PIDFile after closing.
>
> So, liquidsoap was historically put in daemon mode through the
> debian-specific start-stop-daemon. However, some time ago, support for
> daemonized mode was also added in ocaml-dtools, which liquidsoap uses.
> Thus, you should be able to ask liquidsoap to run in daemon mode,
> either by setting:
>   set("init.daemon",false)
> in your script or by using the --daemon option. If you go that route,
> you will have several options that you can use, including:
>   set("init.daemon.pidfile",true)
>   set("init.daemon.pidfile.path","<sysrundir>/<script>.pid")
> which should allow liquidsoap to write and remove PID file (or so I hope!)

My bad, I can see now that PID file is created but not removed. Woops!

I'm putting that on my TODO and will add it for 1.1.1 (coming soon)

Romain

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