Re: dbmail init systemd

On 2016-07-15 12:01, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 15.07.2016 um 12:58 schrieb Gordan Bobic:
>> On 2016-07-15 11:43, Admin Beckspaced wrote:
>>> i see there's also a systemd folder in the 3.2.3 version:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/pjstevns/dbmail/tree/master/systemd
>>> 
>>> and some makefiles ....
>>> 
>>> sorry ... i'm no linux expert, but could you perhaps shed some light
>>> on creating the proper systemd service files for my OS opensuse
>>> 
>>> would really love to have that nice auto-restart feature once a 
>>> dbmail
>>> process crashes.
>>> this is possble with using systemd service files, isn't it?
>> 
>> While I get that auto-restart on crash is conceptually a very DevOps
>> way of glazing over the problem, I hope I am not the only one feeling
>> a little nervous about trusting an application that randomly crashes
>> on a regular basis with something as potentially important as email.
> 
> surely, but you have two options if a service crashs
> 
> * process monitoring which restarts it
> * wait for complaint calls and start it by hand
> 
> none of both will solve the underlying problem magically but "until i
> don't know how to solve the real issue i refuse to start the service"
> won't help ypu

No option of migrating to something that doesn't crash if the bug
isn't fixed upstream in a reasonable timeframe?

Gordan