On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:08:46AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 16.09.2011 22:00, schrieb Gabor Kovesdan: > >On 2011.09.16. 17:51, Matthias Andree wrote: > >>Am 16.09.2011 11:51, schrieb Lev Serebryakov: > >>>Hello, Freebsd-ports. > >>>You wrote 16 сентября 2011 г., 0:28:07: > >>> > >>>>>Really? I thought it was supposed to be standard > >>>>>behaviour- the @stopdaemon > >>>>>line in pkg-plist facilitates that. > >>>>While I totally understand why we do this, I have to say it's VERY > >>>>VERY annoying behavior especially when one upgrading a remote system > >>>>with multiple server daemon ports. One have to watch the whole > >>>>process carefully and restart the daemon manually. > >>> Yep, and even more annoyingly is that it is completely inconsistent: > >>> some daemons are stopped, some not, etc. > >>We do not currently have a standard procedure for that, nor do we record > >>the necessary state -- perhaps we should just discuss, vote, and add a > >>paragraph to the porter's handbook. > >> > >>We also need to bring the authors (or volunteers) for the de-facto > >>standard upgrade tools into the loop. > >> > >>My thoughts: > >> > >>- give the user a choice to configure whether to restart services > >> > >>- optional: give the users a chance to configure this per-service > >> > >>- discuss whether we want/need to support this (a) in the framework that > >>we currently use, (b) only in pkgng, (c) in portmaster and portupgrade > >>where necessary. > >Or we could have a facility to check whether services are running. > >For example, I have some cron scripts, which are similar for all > >of the services that I'm watching. They run periodically and > >restart services if they are down. It does not matter if they are > >down because of an upgrade or a failure, so this solution is more > >general. Here's an example that I have for MySQL: > > > Before we go that way, we should consider using runit by Gerrit Pape > (smarden.org), Upstart, or port systemd.
Or (bet you didn't expect that from a hardcore daemontools user like me ;) our own FreeBSD Services Control - http://people.FreeBSD.org/~trhodes/fsc/ (once it's ready to enter the tree) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 because I didn't think of a good beginning of it.
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