| wralej1 | can a task restart itself ? that is, if i exec something which exits zero, can i use upstart to completely run it, over and over, without respawning on exit non-zero? | 01:30 |
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| xnox | wralej1: see "respawn" stanza in $ man 5 init, or cookbook | 02:04 |
| wralej1 | xnox: i read the respawn section again. the first time around, i got the impression that the respawn stanza causes a task restart only on a non-zero exit.. now, i'm not so sure.. the cookbook doesn't say explicitly.. it says: "Likewise, for tasks, (see below), respawning means that you want that task to be retried until it exits with zero (0) as its exit code." | 02:09 |
| xnox | wralej1: "task" is also a stanza and has special meaning ;-) | 02:13 |
| xnox | wralej1: maybe you want to define which "exit" codes you consider normal, and which abnormal. | 02:13 |
| xnox | "normal exit" | 02:14 |
| wralej1 | xnox: i see.. i'm going to look at the source code.. i gather respawn must not make the non-zero assumption for tasks, at least | 02:14 |
| wralej1 | yes, that would be my preference.. defining | 02:14 |
| xnox | wralej1: man page is more clear "exit 0 || stop" is to finish, and not respawn. So you could guard exits, and call "stop" when/where needed as well. | 02:16 |
| wralej1 | xnox: awesome.. i'll look at the man page.. thanks for the help | 02:17 |
| xnox | wralej1: no problem =) | 02:18 |
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