[CentOS] Migrating CentOS 5 -> 6: where to put /etc/inittab respawn scripts?

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Alexander Farber
<alexander.farber at gmail.com> wrote:
> My script has 2 pecularities:
>
> 1) When it gets SIGTERM or SIGINT, it writes some data into PostgreSQL
> and this takes 10-15 seconds
>
> 2) When it is started numerous times,
> then the subsequent runs
> will fail immediately, because only the 1st instance
> will be able to listen at the TCP-port 8080
>
> And in /var/log/messages I see:
>
> ...
> 17:44:25 static init: pref main process ended, respawning
> 17:44:26 static init: pref main process (2128) terminated with status 98
> 17:44:26 static init: pref main process ended, respawning
> 17:44:26 static init: pref main process (2133) terminated with status 98
> 17:44:26 static init: pref respawning too fast, stopped
>
> is that all maybe the reason and is there something I could do?
> (maybe somehow delay the subsequent spawns?)

Can you make it sleep a bit and retry the socket open a few times if
it fails due to the previous process not releasing the port yet?

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  Les Mikesell
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