Re: Service status

Hi,

It's wat suits us best, si the way we are going with for about 3 years
now (and more actually).

As you can see there are debian init scripts included so I think Paul
knew what he was doing ;)

Cheers,

Matt

2015-10-04 18:29 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald <[email protected]>:
>
>
> 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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