Determine when restart fails

[James Hunt]

... forgot to say that I have updated the Cookbook on this topic:

- http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#respawn
- http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#respawn-limit


2014-03-05 14:51 GMT+00:00 James Hunt <james.hunt at ubuntu.com>:

> Hi Michael,
>
> 2014-03-04 19:26 GMT+00:00 Michael Barrett <loki77 at gmail.com>:
>
> Is there anyway to tell the difference between these different 'stopped'
>> situations:
>> - The daemon was stopped by a user command (service <daemon> stop)
>>
> $UPSTART_EVENTS will not be set in this scenario (since no event caused
> the job to stop - an admin intervened).
>
> - The daemon died, but is has not reached the respawn limit and is
>> restarting.
>>
>   In this scenario, $PROCESS will be set to the name of the job process
> that failed (for example 'pre-start', 'main').
>
>  - The daemon died and is not going to attempt to respawn due to whatever
>> reason (no respawn, or reaching the respawn limit)
>>
>  In this scenario, if the respawn stanzas was specified, $PROCESS will be
> set to 'respawn' to denote that the respawn limit was reached.
>
> If the respawn stanza was not specified, $PROCESS will not be set.
> However, in both scenarios upstart will set $EXIT_STATUS or $EXIT_SIGNAL
> (whichever is appropriate).
>
> See stopped(7) and init(5) for further details.
>
>
>> Thanks!
>>
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>
>
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>
> James.
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