Re: dbmail init systemd

Am 15.07.2016 um 13:12 schrieb Gordan Bobic:
> 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?

define reasonable - not easy at least when you wrote many thousand lines 
of code fro backends and integration between different services and 
machines over 8 years.....

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