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Diffstat (limited to 'examples/var_service')
| -rw-r--r-- | examples/var_service/README_distro_proposal.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | examples/var_service/ifplugd_if/run | 8 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/examples/var_service/README_distro_proposal.txt b/examples/var_service/README_distro_proposal.txt index ec887b4e1..f161406a7 100644 --- a/examples/var_service/README_distro_proposal.txt +++ b/examples/var_service/README_distro_proposal.txt @@ -246,7 +246,8 @@ relative to the system-wide service directory. This proposal asks developers of other daemontools implementations to add "svc" command to their projects] -The "svok DIR" tool exits 0 if service is running, and nonzero if not. +The "svok DIR" tool exits 0 if service supervisor is running +(with service itself either running or stopped), and nonzero if not. Other tools with different names and APIs may exist; however for portability scripts should use the above tools. diff --git a/examples/var_service/ifplugd_if/run b/examples/var_service/ifplugd_if/run index fade8b98d..5d1d4e355 100755 --- a/examples/var_service/ifplugd_if/run +++ b/examples/var_service/ifplugd_if/run @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ exec \ env - PATH="$PATH" \ softlimit \ setuidgid root \ -ifplugd -apqlns -t3 -u8 -d8 -i "$if" -r "$pwd/ifplugd_handler" +ifplugd -aqlns -t3 -u8 -d8 -i "$if" -r "$pwd/ifplugd_handler" # We use -t3 to wake ifplugd up less often. # If after three tests (3*3=9 > 8) link state seen to be different, @@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ ifplugd -apqlns -t3 -u8 -d8 -i "$if" -r "$pwd/ifplugd_handler" # IOW: short link losses will be ignored, longer ones # will trigger DHCP reconfiguration and such (see handler code). +# -l makes ifplugd run either "up" or "down" script on startup. +# For example, if wired eth cable is unplugged, this stops dhcp service +# from pointlessly trying to get a lease. +# -q means that stopping monitoring does not stop dhcp/zcip/etc: +# presumably, admin decided to control them manually. + #-a Don't up interface automatically #-p Don't run "up" script on startup #-q Don't run "down" script on exit |