Re: Service status

Hi,

This is true for RHEL based distros, but Debian based ones are not
like that yet and also think it's not wise to depend on the OS for
service status, I still like the old fashioned way here.



2015-10-04 17:52 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald <[email protected]>:
>
>
> Am 04.10.2015 um 17:40 schrieb Matt.:
>>
>> Has anyone a working status addition to the init script for checking
>> the service status per service ?
>>
>> There was some in the .sh scriptf for the 1.x versions but not in th
>> 3.x versions.
>>
>> Would be nice to see some example as I'm trying something but am not sure
>
>
> consider using systemd - the whole conept about status in sysvinit is broken
> by design and just a workaround - why? because sysvinit has and never had a
> solid clue what a service really does
>
> a init system which give relieable status back needs to monitor the main-PID
> and not rely on PID files somewhere, well and it can monitor services and
> restart them automatically while a manual stop compared to monit or similar
> tools would not start the service again (and yes dbmail really needs some
> monitoring, only the crashes last weekend of our imapd would have been
> enough to driving an admin crazy when need to intervention each time)
>
> [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ systemctl status dbmail-imapd.service
> ● dbmail-imapd.service - DBMail IMAP Server
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbmail-imapd.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>    Active: active (running) since Mi 2015-09-30 12:55:27 CEST; 4 days ago
>  Main PID: 8693 (dbmail-imapd)
>    CGroup: /system.slice/dbmail-imapd.service
>            └─8693 /usr/sbin/dbmail-imapd -D
>
>
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