Re: Service status

Hi,

Yap, this just needs some finetuning as I require perfect managment ;)

I was testing something and that works quite OK, but I was not
satisfied. When dbmail fails only imapd fails, lmtp, etc keeps
running.

Have you actually seen that it doesn' t matter if you use a mysql
backend or ldap, or whatever ? if you use MySQL it will stop the
service also after 5 tries.

I think it needs a good review at that part.

Thanks for the link, I will check it :)

Cheers,

matt

2015-10-04 18:45 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald <[email protected]>:
>
>
> Am 04.10.2015 um 18:32 schrieb Matt.:
>>
>> 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 ;)
>
>
> 3 years :-)
>
> 2009-2011 sysvinit
> 2011-2015 systemd
>
> however, you just need to copy the status function from another sysvint
> scipt and modify the logic, it's not much more than read the pidfile and
> look if the process is running
>
> attached the fedora init-script from 2010 extracted from the src.rpm at
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=167533, they had
> always the status function included
>
>
>
>> 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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