JBjbbarth·Jun 10, 2018
Maybe take a look at https://github.com/jordansissel/pleaserun
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An attempt to abstract this "init" script madness.
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5 sourcesPleaserun generates startup scripts
1 points · Open discussionA very sigifigant part of Ansible service module code was done to deal with misbehaving init scripts. They are very much cargo-culted just like RPM or debian package formats - borrow the ones from your previous project.
They are hard to get right and many apps don't daemonize correctly or return OK before they are ready to be running - and then are actually running much later. Upstart/systemd didn't neccessarily make that more clear for people to understand either.
While I haven't tried it, I recently encountered a reference to https://github.com/jordansissel/pleaserun and it sounds promising.
I don't know how much of this applies to programming in general, really, but init scripts are.. yes... special things.
In A significant amount of programming is done by superstitionPleaserun is a much-needed project, I would recommend that people use it as a starting point for generating init configurations (although unsurprisingly the sysvinit script it generates has portability issues [0]), and there are plenty of situations where what it generates will be good enough.
I'm warming up to the idea that configuration management systems like chef should use pleaserun or add a similar abstraction themselves.
[0] https://github.com/jordansissel/pleaserun/issues/49
In Systemd: The Biggest FallaciesApologies if you already knew this, but you may be interested in pleaserun[1] which attempts to manage the differences in init formats from a common interface.
It's still quite new but I've been reasonably happy with it so far. I did have to extend it a little to allow commands like bootstrapping for clustered software.
[1] https://github.com/jordansissel/pleaserun
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