Re: Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon
Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au> writes:
> Just to clarify: does this mean systemd and upstart can refer to the
> instances collectively or individually as required? E.g. you can tell
> it restart all instances of httpd (on dpkg upgrade) or just restart one
> specific instance (after a config change)?
It looks like both upstart and systemd don't provide direct mechanisms to
manage all instances. The upstart cookbook recommends getting a list of
all active services and extracting the list of instances of a particular
service from that, and then acting on them in a loop. systemd's docs (at
least that I can find) don't have a similar recipe, but systemd has all
the tools required to do the same thing.
> Will additional effort be needed so that dpkg or maintainer scripts can
> request the collective restart of all instances,
Yes.
> should this be documented with a wishlist bug against dpkg perhaps?
I would hold off until we decide which init system we're going with, and
I'm not sure where this belongs. It may make more sense to put it into
dh-systemd and/or dh_installinit.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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