iyzs...@member.fsf.org (宋文武) skribis: > Also, I find that my slow box is unable start this opensmtpd service > during a fresh boot. ‘smtpd’ has a timeout of 10s hardcoded, I patched > that to 60s to make it fully start. But it turns out that > ‘read-pid-file’ of shepherd has a timeout of 5s, so I guess that’s why > the service is marked as stop when it actually running…
Oh that sounds like a bug: shepherd should kill(2) the process when the PID file doesn’t show up on time. Fixed in commit a8fa86bb23cc457e2cd603ad505c964bc8dc889e of the Shepherd. The previous commit allows you to select a timeout other than 5 seconds too—wonderful. ;-) Thanks! Ludo’.
