Hi Andreas Ericsson:
On Sat, 2009-05-16, at 13:55, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Devin Bayer wrote:
>>
>>
>> We faced an issue when nagios silently failed to fork. Since it's
>> part of our startup scripts, this delayed the rest of the daemons
>> until nagios exited.
>
> While it's bad that Nagios fails to daemonize OR die properly, your
> startup-script parser really shouldn't hang indefinitely when it
> encounters a start-script that doesn't return. I believe this should
> be bug-reported to your distribution-vendor separately.
I agree - but this is RHEL5, and it is not a new class of bug. The
fact that it isn't already fixed means it's a policy: daemons are
responsible for exiting timely.
> Hmm. I'll look into this and see what may be done.
Thanks a lot. Do you have some kind of tracking system, so I can know
when/if it's fixed?
- Devin
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