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Document new per-service options controlling automatic respawn
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
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@@ -332,8 +332,11 @@ by declaring the PID file to look for: `pid:!/path/to/pidfile.pid`.
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**Syntax:** `service [LVLS] <COND> /path/to/daemon ARGS -- Optional description`
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**Syntax:** `service [LVLS] <COND> /path/to/daemon ARGS -- Optional description`
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Service, or daemon, to be monitored and automatically restarted if it
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Service, or daemon, to be monitored and automatically restarted if it
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exits prematurely. Finit tries to restart services that die 10 times
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exits prematurely. Finit tries to restart services that die, by
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before giving up, then you have to `initctl restart NAME` it manually.
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default 10 times before giving up and marking them as *crashed*.
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After which they have to be manually restarted with `initctl restart
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NAME`. The limits controling this are configurable, see the options
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below.
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For daemons that support it, we recommend appending `--foreground`,
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For daemons that support it, we recommend appending `--foreground`,
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`--no-background`, `-n`, `-F`, or similar command line argument to
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`--no-background`, `-n`, `-F`, or similar command line argument to
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@@ -390,6 +393,21 @@ optional `name` argument:
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name:<service-name>
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name:<service-name>
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As mentioned previously, services are automatically restarted, this is
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configurable with the following options:
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* `restart:NUM` -- number of times Finit tries to restart a crashing
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service, default: 10. When this limit is reached the service is
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marked *crashed* and must be restarted manually with `initctl`
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* `restart_sec:SEC` -- number of seconds before Finit tries to restart
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a crashing service, default: 2 seconds for the first five retries,
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then back-off to 5 seconds. The maximum of this configured value
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and the above (2 and 5) will be used
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* `norestart` -- dont restart on failures, same as `restart:0`
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* `oncrash:reboot` -- when all retries have failed, and the service
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has *crashed*, if this option is set the system is rebooted.
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Note, future releases may include other `oncrash:` actions
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When stopping a service (run/task/sysv/service), either manually or
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When stopping a service (run/task/sysv/service), either manually or
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when moving to another runlevel, Finit starts by sending `SIGTERM`, to
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when moving to another runlevel, Finit starts by sending `SIGTERM`, to
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allow the process to shut down gracefully. If the process has not
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allow the process to shut down gracefully. If the process has not
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command modifier.
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command modifier.
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.It Cm service Oo LVLS Oc Ao COND Ac Ar /path/to/daemon ARGS Op -- Optional description
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.It Cm service Oo LVLS Oc Ao COND Ac Ar /path/to/daemon ARGS Op -- Optional description
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Service, or daemon, to be monitored and automatically restarted if it
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Service, or daemon, to be monitored and automatically restarted if it
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exits prematurely. Finit tries to restart services that die 10 times
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exits prematurely. Finit tries to restart services that die, by
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before giving up, then you have to restart it manually:
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default 10 times, before giving up and marking them as
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.Cm initctl restart NAME
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.Em crashed .
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After which they have to be restarted manually using
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.Cm initctl restart NAME .
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The number of restarts, the delay between each restart, and more is
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configurable, see the options below.
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.Pp
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.Pp
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For daemons that support it, we recommend appending
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For daemons that support it, we recommend appending
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.Cm --foreground , --no-background , -n , -F ,
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.Cm --foreground , --no-background , -n , -F ,
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@@ -200,6 +204,7 @@ flag (daemonize) to prevent it from forking to the background:
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.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
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.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
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service [2345] <pid/zebra> /sbin/ospfd -- OSPF daemon
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service [2345] <pid/zebra> /sbin/ospfd -- OSPF daemon
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.Ed
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.Pp
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.Cm [2345]
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.Cm [2345]
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denote the runlevels
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denote the runlevels
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.Cm ospfd
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.Cm ospfd
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.Cm name:foo
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.Cm name:foo
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command modifier.
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command modifier.
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.Pp
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.Pp
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As mentioned previously, services are automatically restarted should
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they crash, this is configurable with the following options:
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.Bl -tag -width 1n
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.It Cm restart:NUM
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number of times Finit tries to restart a crashing
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service, default: 10. When this limit is reached the service is
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marked
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.Em crashed
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and must be restarted manually with
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.Xr initctl 8 .
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.It Cm restart_sec:SEC
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number of seconds before Finit tries to restart
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a crashing service, default: 2 seconds for the first five retries,
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then back-off to 5 seconds. The maximum of this configured value
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and the above (2 and 5) will be used
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.It Cm norestart
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dont restart on failures, same as
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.Cm restart:0
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.It Cm oncrash:reboot
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when all retries have failed, and the service
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has
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.Em crashed ,
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if this option is set the system is rebooted. Note, future releases
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may include other
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.Cm oncrash:
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actions.
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.El
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.Pp
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When stopping a service (run/task/sysv/service), either manually or when
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When stopping a service (run/task/sysv/service), either manually or when
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moving to another runlevel, Finit starts by sending SIGTERM, to allow
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moving to another runlevel, Finit starts by sending SIGTERM, to allow
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the process to shut down gracefully. If the process has not been
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the process to shut down gracefully. If the process has not been
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