multimedia/zoneminder: rc script runs mysql commands?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:14:18 +0000
Michael Scheidell <michael.scheidell at secnap.com> wrote:

> 
>  We have the same problem with a commercial product. Is the user
> decided to pull a black cord Instead of a soft shut down, the next
> time a power it up, sometimes there is a race conditions between time
> out on the services that are looking to a running sequel server, and
> the database recovery. rc ordering is a good way to at least give me
> a hint which 1 needs to start first but has everyone has observed, it
> in a bit self cannot guarantee this service is running. you could do
> something funky with wait pid but you might not want the system to
> hang waiting for everything to start. some kind of passive wait loop
> 2 seconds wait loop 4 seconds wait loop 10 seconds wait loope 60
> seconds wait loop 120 seconds but this is not a free bsd porting
> issue. Uostream would need to look at it.

Yes, but at least some kind of check if the service actually started,
some echo in the console / logging would be veyr good.



> ________________________________________ From:
> owner-freebsd-ports at freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-ports at freebsd.org] on
> behalf of Ion-Mihai Tetcu [itetcu at FreeBSD.org] Sent: Wednesday,
> January 11, 2012 2:47 PM To: Mark Felder Cc:
> freebsd-ports at freebsd.org Subject: Re: multimedia/zoneminder: rc
> script runs mysql commands?
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:41:27 -0600
> Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:16:45 -0600, Boris Samorodov <bsam at passap.ru>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The problem is: while start-up zoneminder is launched after mysql
> > > was started but is not responding yet.
> 
> This, unfortunatelly, highlights perhaps our biggest problem with
> starting services.
> 
> rc.d basically only *orders* the scripts
> - REQUIRE is just "this service needs to be started after that one"
> - AFTER is just a lax checkpoint in the booting sequence
> And if a script doesn't really start the service, for whatever reason,
> there's 0 feedback mandeted/provided by the framework.
> 
> For short, while everything works OK, it's good enough. If not ...
> it's just misleading.
> 
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