I must stop writing emails when tired...
On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 08:35:33PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 10:52:15AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > - The policy-rc.d interface could be extended to allow it to signal a
> > "restart, but do not fail on error" kind of policy. This would work
> > for the "we have thousands of desktops and don't care about a service
> > failing to restart" kind of enviromnent.
>
> Wanting to investigate this a bit further, I find that, actually, such a
> possibility already exists.
>
> According to "man invoke-rc.d", policy-rc.d can exit with exit state 106
> and provide a number of actions on stdout. These are then actions that
> invoke-rc.d must try in order "until one of them succeeds". As such, a
> policy-rc.d implementation written like so:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [ "$1" != ssh ]
That is, of course, a logic inversion. Whoops.
> then
> exit 0
For clarity, this means that whatever action was requested would be
allowed; and so if things fail they will cause the init script to fail,
too.
> fi
> echo "$2 stop"
> exit 106
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