[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#427889: Bug#427889: non lsb compliant initscripts cripple intuitive expectations while using heartbeat

[Scott Edwards]

On Tuesday 30 December 2008 09:45:12 am Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Scott Edwards]
>
> > I also wanted to suggest that Debian policy accept the LSB complaince
> > for initscripts as well.  While designing an HA cluster, it's not so
> > intuitive why heartbeat does not like our initscript until you discover
> > it expect initscripts to be LSB complaint.
>
> Which property of the Debian init.d scripts made heartbeat not like
> the init.d scripts?  I ask because it might be easier to get such
> properties changed if we have a good explanation on why it should
> change and how it affect admins badly.
>
> Happy hacking,

heartbeat relies on lsb compliant scripts to determine the health of the node 
its running on.  If an already running service errors when requsting to start 
the service, it may determine the health of that service unusable.  Same goes 
when it's already stopped and a stop request is run.

http://www.linux-ha.org/ResourceAgent

See http://www.linux-ha.org/LSBResourceAgent about broken init scripts.

Thanks,



Scott

HA post: 
http://lists.linux-ha.org/pipermail/linux-ha/2008-December/035673.html