On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:20:27 -0500 Zbigniew =?utf-8?Q?J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zjedr...@gmu.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 07:31:32PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > The default for sysv init scripts is RemainAfterExit=true [0], so even > > if there are no running processes, the service is marked as active. > > This is because systemd doesn't know, if the sysv init script is > > supposed to start a long running process or a just some one shot commands. > Hm, would there be downsides to defaulting to RemainAfterExit=false > for sysvinit scripts? Apart from the obvious one of changig established > behaviuor and potentially breaking compatiblity with older systemds. > This would indeed seem to match sysvinit behaviour more closely, and > would also make sysvinit scripts more similar to normal units, which > default to RemainAfterExit=no.
That would have the effect of marking scripts that don't run long-running processes as "failed", and thus running "start" on them again would re-run the script. That seems like an improvement, as long as systemd doesn't let the "failure" of scripts that don't launch a daemon prevent other scripts with LSB dependencies on the "failing" script from running. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
