init script behaviour

[Casey Dahlin]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:40:43PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com> said:
> > I'd say fire and forget or something close for most sysv initscripts. If
> > you want to do better you need a modern tool like systemd/upstart/etc.
> > Trying to do it better in bash just makes for piles of ugly, and the
> > weird failure modes and corner cases will usually end up being worse
> > than the problem.
> 
> A well-behaved daemon should be doing all the checking possible before
> forking to go into the background.  The init scripts do check the exit
> code, so configuration errors, failure to bind to sockets, etc. should
> be (and in most cases are) caught that way.
> 

Oh if only they were all well-behaved :) Yes, reading and acting on the
information the daemon itself hands to you is obviously a good thing.

--CJD