[collectd] Bug#422208: /etc/init.d/collectd doesn't stop all the daemons

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi Bas,

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:15:21PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> You wrote:
> > Starting with version 4 the code which writes to the RRD files caches updates
> > to the files. In large setups the cache size might get quite big and a large
> > amount of data might have to be flushed when shutting down the daemon.
> 
> In that case, it's even more important for the init script not to exit
> before thc process is properly terminated.  If the script exists right
> away during a shutdown for example, the processes will get killed
> automatically, possibly without having written all data to disk.

Okay, I will wait for the process to stop for 30 seconds (by default - I think
this should be made easily configurable using /etc/default/collectd so it can
be adapted for really large setups) similar to squid as you proposed in an
earlier E-mail, print an error message if the process is still running after
that amount of time and return a non-zero exit status.

Any comments?

Cheers,
Sebastian

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