Gregor, Thank you!
Alexander, I'm running a daemon to collects information about the host like cpu and memory utilization. Thank you for the help. I'll try to fix it by modifying the start/stop script. Peter On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Solar Designer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:35:41PM -0300, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: >> When I type: >> /etc/init.d/ganglia-monitor stop >> >> On my Host physical server, it shuts down all the running "gmond" >> processes both in host and in my VEs. How can I avoid this? > > It sounds like you need to enhance the startup script to use pidfiles - > and perhaps submit the change upstream. > > Alternatively, if the startup script is built around the Debian-derived > start-stop-daemon program, then it can instruct this program to only > signal processes that match a particular instance of an executable file. > > On Owl, we use both approaches at once. We defined Red Hat'ish daemon(), > etc. shell functions, which are expected by Red Hat'ish service startup > scripts, to be built upon a revision of start-stop-daemon instead. This > means that even third-party Red Hat'ish service startup scripts that do > not use pidfiles but do use daemon() behave better in this respect on Owl > (than they do e.g. on CentOS) due to start-stop-daemon's checks via /proc. > > Our daemon(), etc. on top of start-stop-daemon: > > http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/owl-startup/functions?rev=HEAD > > Our changes to start-stop-daemon: > > http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/SysVinit/sysvinit-2.85-alt-owl-start-stop-daemon.diff?rev=HEAD > > Finally, the host system is supposed to run software essential to > administering the system only. It sounds like this specific service > might in fact be essential in your case, but I wanted to point this out > anyway. So most of the time the problem would not arise simply because > there would be no added services running on the host system. > > Alexander > -- Peter Senna Tschudin [email protected] gpg id: 48274C36 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
