In data domenica 16 giugno 2013 18.39.46, Luca Filipozzi ha scritto: > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 08:28:18PM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > I have a question concerning a bugreport I got, but that could be quite > > general. > > > > Let's say a daemon provides POP and IMAP, and is configured to provide > > both, in a pop.conf and imap.conf. > > > > How should the daemon ideally fail in case one of the two configuration > > files is incorrect but the other is fine? > > > > Should it log the situation and start the service that it's able to start? > > Or should it just not start at all? > > If it's a single process that listens on two ports (POP & IMAP) then I would > not start at all.
> > A system administrator is likely to interpret that a running process > indicates success start. What would trigger him to check that the process > is listening on both ports. Yes I thought so, but on the other hand, it might be better for the overall system to still run some services than none at all. Anyway I guess I'll see the code and send a patch upstream for that, and see what happens. > Also, in the start up script, how would you indicate that the daemon is > 'half started'. You couldn't, you would just hope that the administrator should go through the logs once he notices that one specific service is not working properly. -- Salvo Tomaselli http://web.student.chalmers.se/~saltom/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2980479.IsSa8mBKkS@hal9000
