On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Unless you are offering to do that for me, for free, on all my >> systems, having to do it certainly does take something away. > > then just don't upgrade to RHEL7 > so what I expect our systems to still have services running past 2020. >> >> Generally speaking, if a service is broken to the point that it needs >> something to automatically restart it I'd rather have it die >> gracefully and not do surprising things until someone fixes it. But >> then again, doesn't mysqld manage to accomplish that in a >> fully-compatible manner on Centos6? > > generally speaking if my webserver dies for whatever reason > in want it to get restarted *now* and seek for the reason > while the services are up and running Then I hope I'm never a customer of that service that doesn't know/care why it is failing. I consider it a much better approach to let you load balancing shift the connections to predictably working servers. > generally speaking: there is more than only mysqld on that world > > generally speaking if i restart a server i want SSH tunnels > to them get restarted on other machines automatically, see below Seems awkward, compared to openvpn. > generally speaking if the OpenVPN service on the location some > hundret kilometers away fails because the poor internet > connection their i want it to be restarted You don't have to restart openvpn to have it reconnect itself after network outages. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos