"Kevin A. Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Shapira, Yoav wrote: > >>The semantic of "restart only if you feel like it" is useless IMHO. You >>either want a restart or you don't. If there's an error serious enough >>to prevent shutdown, you want to look into it anyways. But since your >>use-case apparently calls for this functionality, go ahead, do it, and >>have fun ;) I'd probably -1 any proposed patches as useless bloat. >> > It isn't like this functionaliy is new. Most major daemons in existance > implement this. Apache, MySQL, Postgres, Sendmail, I could go on. >
Use jsvc from commons-daemon. It implements restart semantics (at least if you don't use the one that ships with Tomcat :). > In fact Tomcat is the odd man out on this guy. Every single daemon on my > Unix box implements this version of semantic control except Tomcat. > > The major issue is for scripts. Even most major Linux distribution tools > like the sysv init tools under KDE assume that scripts can do shutdown > correctly or return an error code. > > Kevin > > -- > > Use Rojo (RSS/Atom aggregator). Visit http://rojo.com. Ask me for an > invite! Also see irc.freenode.net #rojo if you want to chat. > > Rojo is Hiring! - http://www.rojonetworks.com/JobsAtRojo.html > > If you're interested in RSS, Weblogs, Social Networking, etc... then you > should work for Rojo! If you recommend someone and we hire them you'll > get a free iPod! > Kevin A. Burton, Location - San Francisco, CA > AIM/YIM - sfburtonator, Web - http://peerfear.org/ > GPG fingerprint: 5FB2 F3E2 760E 70A8 6174 D393 E84D 8D04 99F1 4412 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
