I'm trying to fix a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/523391 initscript collected problems LSB-compilant watchdog It's all fairly straightforward except for the 'watchdog stop' operation. Now when you send a signal to the watchdog daemon, it can take several seconds to shut down. The usual 'killproc' function would handle this by sending a SIGTERM, waiting a few seconds, then sending a SIGKILL. However for the Linux watchdog API, this is a very bad idea: if you kill the daemon before it has properly cleaned up, then it might not have "disarmed" the watchdog, with the result that your machine could suddenly hard reboot some seconds later. Oops. We don't want that so we use 'killproc -TERM' which disables the waiting bit and the final SIGKILL. The watchdog daemon is pretty well-behaved and does eventually terminate[1]. Because the watchdog hasn't shut down when the init script returns, the LSB script test for this fails. So I don't know how to fix that one. Any suggestions? Rich. [1] Note: After an arbitrarily long time .. it could be in the middle of running an external user-supplied test script at the time. The upper bound on these is the watchdog timeout, which is configurable and determined by a combination of the conf file, the device driver, and the hardware itself. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
