[NBLUG/talk] Why have directories in /var/run if they're not persistent through reboot?

Tom Most twm at freecog.net
Wed Aug 2 22:18:15 PDT 2017


Upstart then. It's kinda buggy in the edge cases (I've managed to get it
so confused that I had to reboot to get rid of a wedged service) but
reasonably capable. The SIGSTOP startup notification technique is
actually a highlight---it's really easy to implement, even from a shell
script---the systemd equivalent is sd_notify(), a C API :(

---Tom

On 08/02/2017 10:03 PM, Zack Zatkin-Gold wrote:
> Still running 14.04, unfortunately.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 2, 2017, at 21:58, Tom Most <twm at freecog.net
> <mailto:twm at freecog.net>> wrote:
>
>> On 07/31/2017 09:35 AM, Jordan Erickson wrote:
>>> On 07/31/2017 12:06 AM, Tom Most wrote:
>>>> I'll take a moment to node that pidfiles are not usually necessary on a
>>>> modern Linux system: under systemd there is no need to bother with them,
>>>> as init tracks the process directly.
>>> "modern Linux system" -- Them's fightin' words ;} Truly I can think of a
>>> *couple* of modern distros who use an init system that doesn't attempt
>>> to usurp the entirety of what small pieces working well together have
>>> been accomplishing for many, many years.
>> I mentioned systemd as it is the most commonly deployed modern init,
>> not to say that it is the only one. I could certainly have worded
>> this better, but, eh, I was tired. Frankly the odds are that Zach is
>> deploying to a system that runs systemd or Upstart, both of which I
>> would count as "modern" (this is about whether your init can
>> supervise processes in a useful way).
>>
>> I actually really appreciate that this is the case, as it gets me one
>> step closer toward never having to maintain an init script again.
>>>> all hail systemd
>>> RMS called, he wants his religion back.
>> I intended this as a tongue-in-cheek remark about how stuff changes,
>> in the context of a response that states that PID files are usually
>> no longer necessary. For context, moving /var/run to /run was
>> proposed early in the systemd days, and has since been incorporated
>> into the FHS
>> <http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch05s13.html>. It
>> was also adopted by other distributions because, frankly, it's a good
>> idea that solved real problems.
>>
>> I am not sure how merely mentioning systemd --- once in the context
>> of "lots of distributions in 2017 ship it" and the other slightly
>> snarky --- qualifies me as a Priest in the Church of Holy systemd. I
>> really don't want any part of that poisonous "debate".
>>
>> ---Tom
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