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Re: a few observations in a multi-user setup


From: xrs
Subject: Re: a few observations in a multi-user setup
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 14:52:49 +0200

> The user-service behaves odd enough for rc.d to report
> "gnunetuser is not running" while the service is started
> and running - how can we improve that so that service
> managers can pick up the status?
> on the other hand my service could still be hacky enough
> to return 1 on status for whatever reason I missed yesterday.

This helped me with rc and daemonizing:

> To recap, in order of preference:
> 
> If the daemon backgrounds itself and creates its own PID file, use
> pidfile. If the daemon does not background itself (or has an option
> to run in the foreground) and does not create a PID file, then use
> command_background=true and pidfile. If the daemon backgrounds itself
> and does not create a PID file, use procname instead of pidfile. But,
> if your daemon has the option to run in the foreground, then you
> should do that instead (that would be the case in the previous item).
> The last case, where the daemon does not background itself but does
> create a PID file, doesn't make much sense. If there's a way to
> disable the daemon's PID file (or, to write it straight into the
> garbage), then do that, and use command_background=true.

https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/service-script-guide.md

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