On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 12:07, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: [ cc'ing -devel due to the widespreadness of the problem ] > I don't know, but I have seen this happen (and because of this I tend > not to use restart; I use a manual stop/start, and let the extra delay > caused by typing the options help). A lot. (I tend to use either slow > boxes or underpowered boxen, or even both) If restart fails, file an "important" bug. See Policy 9.3.2. > > I have also seen scripts with things like "sleep 1" or "sleep 5" in them > in the restart case (try "fgrep sleep -r /etc/init.d" to see what I > mean). Most of those, I'm pretty sure, are bugs. UGH! Even the skeleton file has them... > I don't believe start-stop-daemon has any guarantees about the process > finishing; the man page only says it sends a signal > (btw, the manpage > has those ugly non-escaped hyphens). file a bug. > --retry with a infinite timeout > (which nobody does) would be a way to avoid the races (but then you have > issues on shutdown with processes stuck in unkillable states...) --retry should probably be used to give it a few tries (maybe 10 seconds at most) and then, depending on the daemon, either SIGKILL it or have the init.d script return a failure. i.e., if postgres fails to shut down, wait or fail. If inetd fails, murder it.
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