Bug#211784: Not just nis...

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:32:25 -0300,
Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> I've also seen this with snmpd in a friend's box (the upgrade stopped
> it, it didn't load, and a few hours later he noticed mrtg was
> misbehaving). That box is a genuine Pentium MMX 200, so it's no surprise
> stopping something takes a bit longer than usual.

Interesting, yes, this NIS and slow machine issue is problem.

> I think the mistake is in the rc.d scripts, which don't wait for the
> program to really quit before returning from the stop action. Increasing
> the delay before restarting is just a kludge, you can still lose the
> race.

I'm surprised.  Is this true?  If so, this is start-stop-daemon fault...

Regards,
-- gotom