On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:00:23AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:05:22 -0400 (EDT)
> Rob Owens wrote:
>
>
> > This system is supposed to mount several NFS shares
> > on boot, but it always fails -- even when using openrc (which is
> > dependency-based) on Funtoo.
>
> Am I
Timo Buhrmester writes:
>> OpenRC? I just don't get it.
[...]
>> It can't respawn
> Probably because people don't want this behavior. Auto-respawn only
> makes sense when you're "relying" on buggy software you already expect
> to blow up, *and* are unwilling to debug it.
I expect that all soft
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 06:45:25PM +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote:
> On 29/09/2015 17:34, Timo Buhrmester wrote:
> >>It can't respawn
> >Probably because people don't want this behavior. Auto-respawn only
> >makes sense when you're "relying" on buggy software you already expect
> >to blow up, *and* a
On 29/09/2015 17:34, Timo Buhrmester wrote:
It can't respawn
Probably because people don't want this behavior. Auto-respawn only
makes sense when you're "relying" on buggy software you already expect
to blow up, *and* are unwilling to debug it. "Try turning it off
and on again", "A restart wil
> what if it's an exploit ? [...] it means the attacker only has to hit
> once to cause a denial of service that lasts until some admin can deal
> with it
I'd pick a one-hit DoS over unlimited attempts to execute code every day.
But yes, you're right that it heavily depends on what service we're
t
- Original Message -
> From: "Steve Litt"
>
> Am I the only person who doesn't like OpenRC? It can't respawn
> (supervise, whatever you call it). Its init scripts are every bit as
> complicated as those of sysvinit, but must be written in a special
> language that's confusingly almost but
Timo Buhrmester wrote:
> Probably because people don't want this behavior. Auto-respawn only
> makes sense when you're "relying" on buggy software you already expect
> to blow up, *and* are unwilling to debug it. "Try turning it off
> and on again", "A restart will fix it" is the Windows-way...
> OpenRC? I just don't get it.
OpenRC is twisted because Linux people [are said to] not understand BSD;
Here's a median-length rc.d script (the one for inetd)
| #!/bin/sh
| #
| # $NetBSD: inetd,v 1.7 2004/08/13 18:08:03 mycroft Exp $
| #
|
| # PROVIDE: inetd
| # REQUIRE: DAEMON LOGIN
| # KEYWORD:
