How about checking if the service is running and then reacting based on that. If the service is running then katello-upgrade command will exit and alert the sysadmin that he/she should stop the service. If not, then upgrade can continue.<div> <div> </div><div>Thoughts? <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Jordan OMara <<a href="mailto:jomara@redhat.com" target="_blank">jomara@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">eric filed this bug: <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820280" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820280</a> og filed a similar one: <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837866" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837866</a> a pull request: <a href="https://github.com/Katello/katello/pull/331" target="_blank">https://github.com/Katello/katello/pull/331</a> However, lzap & msuchy have brought up that this might be poor behavior or very confusing to a sysadmin and that they would want to almost always stop services themselves before starting the upgrade process. I don't have enough sysadmin experience to make a good decision so I wanted to bring it up to the list. tl;dr: katello-upgrade currently fails if you haven't stopped your services. the pull requests makes the script stop them for you my uninformed 2c: the patch is fairly innocuous because you can decline to have the script stop anything and exit DISCUSS -- Jordan O'Mara <jomara at <a href="http://redhat.com" target="_blank">redhat.com</a>> Red Hat Engineering, Raleigh _______________________________________________ katello-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:katello-devel@redhat.com">katello-devel@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/katello-devel" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/katello-devel</a> </blockquote></div> </div></div>