On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 15:06 +0200, Marius Karthaus wrote: > I feel I'm missing an option for respawn: the retry time. > > If I define a service in upstart, it will try to respawn the service > with the set limits, for instance (default) by retrying 10 times in 5 > seconds. Now let's assume that a program is unable to start because of > whatever reason during just 1 second. In that time, depending on how > fast the program exits it will be tried 10 times and the program will > never ever be started again by upstart. To me this is bad behavior. > I think upstart should try a couple of times, complain that it is unable > to start the process, wait for some time for the problem to be sorted > out and try to respawn again. > > So I propose a third option to the respawn stanza, the retry time. That > way we can define a much more sensible respawn strategy. > A third option, or a "respawn retry" stanza?
Would not be hard to do, and would be a good miniature project for someone. Patches welcome :-) Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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