Bug#850703: systemd: incorrect LSB support with monit's init script

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.01.2017 um 17:30 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On 2017-01-09 16:41:20 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
>> Hello Vincent,
>>
>> Vincent Lefevre [2017-01-09 15:15 +0100]:
>>> The monit service (from the monit package) should be started last and
>>> stopped first. This is not the case with systemd.
>>>
>>> # Should-Start:      $all
>>> # Should-Stop:       $all
>>
>> Please note that the SysV concept of "$all" is notoriously broken
>> (what if another package uses $all too?),
> 
> I suppose that both should fall in the same class, with no
> dependencies between them. Actually, this is how it is specified
> in <https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>.
> 
>   $all  facility supported by insserv to start a script after all
>         the scripts not depending on $all, at the end of the boot
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Well, what is "the end of the boot"? How is this defined?

That aside, if you've seen the list I posted in my other reply, what
happens if monit wants to monitor reniced?


> monit can monitor arbitrary services, so that I suppose that it
> doesn't know in advance. A solution would be to have a way to
> enumerate all the available services on the system, and add them there
> dynamically at system start up, but isn't this equivalent to $all?

An alternative idea: monit has a grace period, say 5 min, when it is
started. Within this grace period it does not warn about non-running
services.

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