Your message dated Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:30:24 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#567921: watchdog init script starts wd_keepalive with
watchdog_options, but it shouldn't
has caused the Debian Bug report #567921,
regarding watchdog init script starts wd_keepalive with watchdog_options, but
it shouldn't
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Package: watchdog
Version: 5.4-10lenny2
Severity: important
When stopping watchdog with its init script, it starts the wd_keepalive daemon.
However, it starts wd_keepalive with options in the "watchdog_options"
variable. This is not right, because wd_keepalive accepts only one option,
the -c, but watchdog can use much more command line options, and when
specifying an option other than -c, wd_keepalive fails to start.
eg.: I have watchdog_options="-v" in my /etc/default/watchdog, to enable syslog
logging. Now when I stop watchdog with its init script, wd_keepalive is called
with the -v option and it fails to start:
# invoke-rc.d watchdog stop
Stopping watchdog daemon: asdwatchdog.
Starting watchdog keepalive daemon: /usr/sbin/wd_keepalive: invalid option -- v
wd_keepalive version 5.4, usage:
wd_keepalive
# pgrep -lf wd_keepalive
# pgrep -lf watchdog
Although I'm reporting this from a machine using 'testing' this bug is presented
on stable too, and I'm rather concerned about it than about testing.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:08:53AM +0100, LEVAI Daniel wrote:
> When stopping watchdog with its init script, it starts the wd_keepalive
> daemon.
> However, it starts wd_keepalive with options in the "watchdog_options"
> ...
This is already fixed in newer versions. wd_keepalive in testing/unstable
accepts all options watchdog does accept, without them having any function
though. This makes wd_keepalive a drop-in replacement for watchdog.
If you run watchdog on lenny, you could use the backported 5.6-8 version from
backports.org.
If you see problems with a version >= 5.6 please tell me.
Michael
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