> 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.
>
Ok. I can sort of agree with them, but still. Hanging *indefinitely* is
just bad form
>> 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?
>
tracker.nagios.org. Issue 11.
> - Devin
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