Hi,

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 04:23:08PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> 
> Am 01.08.2016 um 02:48 schrieb Sven Strickroth:
> > Package: otrs2
> > Version: 5.0.10-1~bpo8+1
> > Severity: minor
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > right now the OTRS daemon (otrs.Daemon.pl) is started using cron. This leads
> > to restarting issues in combination with the needrestart tool which says 
> > that
> > cron needs to be restarted after perl (security) updates, but restarting it
> > doesn't help as otrs.Daemon.pl is not restarted. Only killing otrs.Daemon.pl
> > manually solves the issue and makes sure that the daemon is restarted.
> I think in this case it is better to blacklist otrs.Daemon.pl in
> needrestart.
> What do you say Thomas?

this sounds odd - and I don't like blacklisting in needrestart
(while add stuff to the override_rc option is OK, but does not help
for this issue).


> > Therefore, why not use the initsystem for starting/stopping the ORTS
> > daemon?
> That is not wanted by upstream. Cron is the recommend usage to ensure,
> that it gets automatic restarted in every setup, if something fails at
> the daemon.

This sounds broken, especially if otrs.Daemon.pl is not detached from
crond.


HTH,
Thomas


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