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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC supporting systemd units
From:       Jeroen Roovers <jer () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2013-05-08 19:18:09
Message-ID: 20130508211809.6cfa9f95 () marga ! jer-c2 ! orkz ! net
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On Wed, 8 May 2013 20:55:35 +0200
Ambroz Bizjak <ambrop7@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Init.d scripts are programs - they could probably do just about
> > anything.
> 
> They couldn't monitor a process and restart it when it crashes, as
> specified by the restart options in the unit file. That is, without
> significant modifications in the way OpenRC works, such as adding a
> monitoring process, or hacks such as launching a daemon that monitor
> that process specifically.

Sounds like a great feature. A crashed process is a buggy one, and I
would want to investigate said program before I relaunched it, and not
have it automatically relaunched as if nothing had happened.


     jer

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