Determine when restart fails

[Michael Barrett]

Awesome, thanks a ton!


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:53 AM, James Hunt <james.hunt at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> ... 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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>
> James.
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