Package: ganglia-monitor
Version: 3.6.0-6
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The current initscript has 2 undesireable behaviours:
* It fails to start if there is another gmond service running
(even though the other process uses a different configuration)
* When it stops, it also kills other, unrelated gmond services.
My use case is that I am using multiple gmond processes on a "head" node
to collect statistics from a dynamic cluster. I am starting the other
gmond processes with a systemd unit file similar to:
[Unit]
Description=Other gmond
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
PrivateTmp=true
ProtectSystem=full
ProtectHome=read-only
NoNewPrivileges=true
PrivateDevices=true
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/gmond -f -c /usr/lib/mypkg/channel-1.conf
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
So far it's working great except for that impolite init script...
I can think of 3 possible solutions:
* Add a systemd initscrit to ganglia-monitor
* Split out the gmond binary into a separate package
so it can be used separately
* Fix the existing initscript to not arbitrarily kill other processes
(possible?)
I am willing to work on the first option if it would be acceptable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages ganglia-monitor depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii libapr1 1.5.1-3
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libconfuse0 2.7-5
ii libexpat1 2.1.0-6+deb8u1
ii libganglia1 3.6.0-6
ii libpcre3 2:8.35-3.3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
ganglia-monitor recommends no packages.
ganglia-monitor suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ganglia/gmond.conf changed [not included]
/etc/init.d/ganglia-monitor changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
