Re: [PATCH] daemons: write pid file even when told not to daemonize

[Loic Dachary <loic@dachary.org>]

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Hi Alexandre,

Changing this behavior is not backward compatible but it is indeed more intuitive. Has it been a significant inconvenience so far ?

Cheers

On 28/08/2014 09:35, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2014, Sage Weil <sweil@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Loic Dachary wrote:
>>> Hi Alexandre,
>>>
>>> With this patch ceph-osd -f will try to create the default pid file : 
>>> this is a non backward compatible change. Maybe there is a way for 
>>> systemd to capture the pid of the process and store it instead of 
>>> requiring the deamon to create the pid file ?
> 
>> Do we need the pid file at all when we aren't using sysinit?
> 
> My own monitoring scripts use it, and ceph stop use it as well.  I was
> surprised we were not creating them in spite of an explicit command line
> option to do so.
> 

-- 
Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre


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