(sorry for the Delay, workload has skyrocked for a few days -HMH)
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> I still don't like restart-if-running though. I don't think "if"s should be
> in the arguments, and I'd be much more inclined towards something like:
>
> if [ `/etc/init.d/foo status` = "running" ]; then
> /etc/init.d/foo restart
> fi
This will be probably possible with LSB-compatible initscripts. I didn't
propose 'status' because it is actually much harder to write than
'restart-if-running' (see LSB specs) -- which would result in a lot of
complains, AND it would be a bad move to implement status in an incompatible
with the LSB way (and the LSB isn't frozen yet).
As for the 'if' in 'restart-if-running', it was not my idea. So far I have
two votes for 'restart-if-running' and only one complain (yours) against the
'-if' in there, so you're (currently) outvoted.
> I'm also (duh) against falling back to a new, optional argument without
> any indication that's appropriate when called. I think that's a really bad
> design. But I'm not really sure what more I can say to convince you this
> is a bad idea. :-/
I thought you hated the idea of error messages (by the end of that past
thread on the issue, at least)? well, here's what the current invoke-rc.d
would output:
(in a fallback request)
godzillah:/tmp/sysvinit$ ash ./invoke-rc.d nfs-kernel-server restart
invoke-rc.d: "restart" of nfs-kernel-server attempted out of runlevel.
invoke-rc.d: using fallback "restart-if-running" instead of "restart".
Usage: nfs-kernel-server {start|stop|reload|force-reload|restart}
invoke-rc.d: initscript nfs-kernel-server, action "restart-if-running" failed.
(in a straight restart-if-running request to a initscript not implementing it)
godzillah:/tmp/sysvinit$ ash ./invoke-rc.d inetd restart-if-running
Usage: /etc/init.d/inetd {start|stop|reload|restart}
invoke-rc.d: initscript nfs-kernel-server, action "restart-if-running" failed.
Here's what 'restart-if-running' might look like for a sane daemon:
restart-if-running)
echo -n "Stopping $DESC if it is running: "
if start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec ${DAEMON} ; then
echo "${NAME}."
echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec ${DAEMON}
echo "${NAME}."
else
echo "(not running)."
fi
;;
You can convince me that the 'restart-if-running' fallback is a bad idea if
you give me a concrete example where things will break because of the
restart-if-running fallback, OR if you give me another solution that is
workable. Also, do remember that the fallback will only happen in a system
where the local administrator knows enough about runlevels to change
Debian's default of 'start service in all runlevels'.
The only other workable solution I can see is to make 'restart-if-running'
(or the LSB status thingie) mandatory for all Debian packages that start
daemons, make it mandatory to use 'restart-if-running' instead of 'restart'
in maintainer packages, and make it mandatory to expect the call to fail and
a script to act reasonably (no aborting the execution of maintainer
scripts!) when requesting it from any package not known to implement it
beforehand.
> Any chance you could be convinced to split this into two separate
> proposals?
Yes, invoke-rc.d is much more important than 'restart-if-running'. Please
read the above, and tell me if you two still want the proposal split.
--
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where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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