Re: mulitlog not getting terminated when Red Hat reboots?

Brian Reichert <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:44:18 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:33:35AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> You assume `svc -d` stops a service from re-starting.  It does not.  It merely
> tells the extant supervise process not to start the service.  You're *killing*
> that supervise process.
> 
> Think: when supervise gets killed, svscan will start a new supervise process
> for that service.  If the down file doesn't exist, the new supervise will
> immediately start the service.

Ah, that then does make sense.  So, for the last several years,
people have been satified with multilog's behavior when a system is
rebooted? :)  daemontools has been out forever, it seems...

I'll have to explore Paul's suggestions, as well as others, to see
if this situation can be tightened down...

Again, thanks for the feedback...

> Charles
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