daemondo is not restarting processes that die

[James Berry]

Hi Mark,

I'll have to look at the Daemondo code again. I'm not sure whether it  
will get a child death notice for a script that it didn't start  
directly, and this may be the problem in the case that you describe.

Looking...

James

On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:52 PM, markd at macports.org wrote:

> Daemondo is not restarting a process for me that dies.  I am sure it  
> is
> tracking the script's pid correctly (using startupitem.pidfile) and  
> I have
> setup logging to verify all this.  At first I did not have the  
> startupitem
> pidfile configured properly and daemondo kept starting more  
> instances of
> the daemon, which was a good sign to me that it was looking for the
> pidfile, using it, and might in fact restart a process that died.
>
> But after fixing the startupitem.pidfile properly, if I kill the  
> script
> (to simulate the script dying abnormally) daemondo never restarts  
> it.  Or
> is kiling it using the Unix kill command a valid test?  Is there a  
> bug in
> daemondo?  It isn't behaving as the main.c comments (or our  
> documentation)
> say it should.  I have never explicitly tested it before, and I'm  
> not sure
> anyone else has either so it seems like a bug.
>
> Mark
>