Re: Service status

Am 04.10.2015 um 18:04 schrieb Matt.:
> 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.

you are aware that in teh recent Denian systemd ist the default 
init-system? "not wise to depend on the OS for service status" - who 
else than the OS? a random script reading some textfile and calling 
wrapped external commands is not really relieable for a status

> 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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