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From: Laurent Bercot <ska-supervision@skarnet.org>
To: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: [announce] perp-2.03: persistent process supervision
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:02:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314170232.GB7248@skarnet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1103141100590.12563@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com>

>> So, if I have a service that is normally running, ie. starts at boot,
>> but I have taken it down manually for whatever reason, and perpd dies,
>> then my service will also be re-started?
> 
> And presumably the converse will apply as well. This is a problem with 
> runit (and daemontools) - if a service has a 'down' file, but has been 
> later started, a dying runsv (e.g. if killed by the OoM killer, or by a 
> service which kills its process group) will be replaced by runsvdir, but 
> the service will stay down.

 We've already discussed this. The default state of a service is controlled
by the absence or presence of a 'down' file. The actual state of a service
can be changed either manually or via a script, but this state *cannot be
strongly guaranteed* if it does not match the default. This is an
unavoidable limit of daemontools-like supervision schemes; do not blame it
on perp's design.

-- 
 Laurent


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-14 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-14 10:39 Wayne Marshall
2011-03-14 13:17 ` Laurent Bercot
2011-03-14 14:02   ` Wayne Marshall
2011-03-14 14:23     ` Robin Bowes
2011-03-14 14:34       ` Wayne Marshall
2011-03-14 16:47         ` Laurent Bercot
2011-03-14 17:39           ` Wayne Marshall
2011-03-14 17:52             ` Paul Jarc
2011-03-14 18:43               ` Wayne Marshall
2011-03-14 18:34             ` Laurent Bercot
2011-03-14 15:03       ` Charlie Brady
2011-03-14 15:35         ` Wayne Marshall
2011-03-14 17:02         ` Laurent Bercot [this message]
2011-03-14 17:42           ` Charlie Brady

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