[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#589915: slapd: service is not operational when the init.d script exits during boot

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:01:54PM +0200, Matthijs Möhlmann wrote:
> It can take 3 minutes or more to have the OpenLDAP server operational,
> should we wait that long in the initscript? Are there objections to for
> example, wait for 5 seconds and try if the server is up, if not do that
> again forever?

> I'm going to do some tests with pdns too, with the bind backend it is
> possible that it can take up a few seconds before operational, but I
> have to test that.

Surely the correct fix is to not daemonize the process until it's listening
(the service is available)?

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