Comment 66 for bug 223825
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| Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote Re: [Bug 223825] Re: aiccu init.d script will race dhclient (upstart issue?) | #66 |
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Excerpts from Jeroen Massar's message of Wed Jul 13 10:53:00 UTC 2011:
> > Jeroen, his upstart job does not use the 'respawn' keyword, so it will not be "automatically restarted" like daemontools does.
> > This is only started when there is a real network interface (something I would think necessary for this daemon to work!),
> > and stopped when the system is going down.
>
> I agree that bringing the daemon up when the network goes up is fine,
> and as there is a PID file it will only run once and not start again
> when the interface is brought up again.
>
> Stopping it when the network goes down though will mean that when the
> network is flipping (which we have seen at several people already) you
> will be effectively start/stopping the daemon all the time.
It does no such thing.
It stops on runlevel [^2345].. which basically means any time the system
goes into a 'rebooting', 'shutting down' or 'single user maintenance
mode' state.
Also local-filesystems only happens during bootup, so it will effectively
only be started automatically at bootup.