Daemonizing Logic Error

[Andreas Ericsson]

Devin Bayer wrote:
> 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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