Re: Kannel quits without reporting fatal error

Hi Alan,

please , please fill Bug report for you patches and attach your patch to it...
so your patches will not be loss or at least start new mail thread with 
[PATCH] in subject...

Thanks in advance...

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 00:16, Alan McNatty wrote:
> Patch to run_kannel_box to log to syslog.
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 12:54, Andreas Fink wrote:
> > On Dienstag, Juli 8, 2003, at 11:13  Uhr, Alan McNatty wrote:
> >
> >         Hello,
> >
> >         run_kannel_box is a strange beast (at least to me). It's
> >         purpose seems
> >         unclear (or more appropriately 'undocumented'). I understand
> >         it's part
> >         of the utils directory (out of main source) but it is part of
> >         standard
> >         build (eg: debian packages).
> >
> >         Andres could you explain a bit about what it's function is ..
> >         the man
> >         page is brief. I have yet to review source code in detail -
> >         but if it's
> >         supposed to restarting failed services I would be interested
> >         in doing
> >         some work/testing with it (potentially adding syslog support
> >         to begin
> >         with).
> >
> > run_kannel_box starts up a process (either bearerbox, webbox orsmsbox)
> > and make's sure that if it fails, it gets restartet.
> >
> > Here's how I start kannel on my computer from
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/kannel.I let the processes run as user "kannel" at
> > the same time:
> >
> >
> > RUN=/var/run/kannel
> > BIN=/usr/local/sbin
> > DELAY="1"
> > CONF="/etc/kannel.conf"
> >
> > RUNBOX="${BIN}/run_kannel_box"
> > BEARERBOX="${BIN}/bearerbox"
> > SMSBOX="${BIN}/smsbox"
> > WAPBOX="${BIN}/wapbox"
> >
> > PID_SMSBOX="$RUN/smsbox.pid"
> > PID_BEARERBOX="$RUN/bearerbox.pid"
> > PID_WAPBOX="$RUN/wapbox.pid"
> >
> > echo "Starting bearerbox"
> > su -c "${RUNBOX} --pidfile ${PID_BEARERBOX} --min-delay
> > ${DELAY}${BEARERBOX} ${CONF} &" kannel
> > sleep 10
> >
> > echo "Starting smsbox"
> > su -c "${RUNBOX} --pidfile ${PID_SMSBOX} --min-delay ${DELAY}${SMSBOX}
> > ${CONF} &" kannel
> > sleep 10
> >
> > echo "Starting wapbox"
> > su -c "${RUNBOX} --pidfile ${PID_WAPBOX} --min-delay ${DELAY}${WAPBOX}
> > ${CONF} &" kannel
> >
> >
> > if you start a kannel box process with run_kannel_box it will keep
> > theprocess restarting if it fails.
> > Try it yourself and try to kill any of the box processes, and you
> > willsee they restart. pretty much like safe_mysqld in mysql.
> > to kill the processes, I kill the process of the PID file above
> > whichis the corresponding run_kannel_box process.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Andreas Fink
> > Global Networks Switzerland AG
> >
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