[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 500 Fix shutdown issues with systemd

[Rob Crittenden]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 11:51 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Simo Sorce wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 11:37 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>>> Simo Sorce wrote:
>>>>> Also improve shutdown reliability and restart behavior so we always kill
>>>>> all the processes we started even if the list of processes to handle
>>>>> changed in LDAP.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2302
>>>>
>>>> Should this list be updated if we do a post-install of DNS or the CA? It
>>>> isn't now which would leave some services running.
>>>
>>> Yes we probably should,
>>> but I think it should be done as a separate ticket.
>>>
>>> Simo.
>>>
>>
>> What's the impact if we don't do this now?
>
> some services will not be turned off by ipactl, however this shouldn't
> impact much at shutdown, as systemd will shutdown left over stuff as it
> keeps track of all processes.
>
> uhmm however if someone does a ipactl restart those services will not be
> restarted the first time it is run (we will tell systemd to start them
> but it will do likely nothing as they are already started), after that
> they will be handled as they fact they are enabled will be stored in the
> file.

Well, what is the downside of a call to refresh the list of running 
services that should be run at the end of setting up new services?

Otherwise we could find outselves with a bunch of unreproducible cases 
where things weren't start/stopped properly.

rob