2006-04-18 Federico <simon3z@xxxxxxxxx> wrote > > > --- Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 23:22 -0400, Harry Hoffman wrote: >> > Why should httpd depend on networking? what is the network comes up >> > later... do you not want httpd to already be running? >> >> You're reading to much in the exact example there :) Just use A and B. >> >> But I admit, I was a bit off-topic regarding the timeout problem. >> I was commenting on the need to have greater control of these inter >> service dependencies. >> >> As for the timeout, that would have to be handled by the services >> manager that starts the services up. Ctrl-C is fine if you're in front >> of the console, but the reboot may be unattended, we need to have a >> system that is able to handle things by itself as well. >> > > This is exactly what i was meaning. If an init script is taking too long (10 > minutes?) it must be killed. > Think if you have a remote server and the boot is stopped cos the ldap init > script is blocked. You would need to get on the site to fix it or find someone > expert enough to do it for you. This has bit me _many_ times (but it has been the shutdown process, not the boot process that hangs). Normally from a dead NFS-server, causing some other process to wait for some I/O, which again blocks the shutdown. It is still part of "init", but just thought I'd mention it so the same timeouts are considered for shutdowns as well. Rgds. Ola Thoresen -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
