Defining the workgroup objectives

Nikolaus Rath Nikolaus at rath.org
Sat Aug 6 18:25:10 UTC 2005


Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:35:19PM +0200, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> 
>>Gerrit Pape wrote:
>>
>>>On system boot all services are started up in parallel.  If services
>>>depending on other services fail if the services they depend on are
>>>not available, all is fine; due to the restart, they'll sort out
>>>automatically.
>>
>>Does that mean that my system will permanently try to start all network 
>>daemons when I decide that I want to shutdown the network for a few minutes?
> 
> 
> This would happen to all daemons that terminate while network is
> temporarily down, and fail to startup again, yes. 

Then runit at least doesn't implement dependencies completely. A fully 
depedencies-aware init system should automatically shut down all 
services depending on network when I request the network to be shut down 
and start them again when the network is started.

Yeah, sysvinit doesn't do this as well. I never said that.

Best regards
Nikolaus




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