Re: Kannel quits without reporting fatal error

Thanks Alex - have done now. 

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 21:26, Alexander Malysh wrote:
> 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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