[Linux-cluster] Disabling cman at boot

[Kadlecsik Jozsef]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Federico Simoncelli wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Do you think we should file a bug and continue the discussion there?
> >
> > Sure. that's also fine by me.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452234
> 
> As I wrote in the bug description... the solution I proposed (adding a
> boot parameter) will also make impossible to start the services
> manually later on (until next reboot). This might be why Jozsef was
> using the check on a file (which can be easily removed). Jozsef can
> you confirm this?

Yes, that was the easiest way to make possible to (re)start services 
without the need to reboot.

> Do you think we can find a way to remove this side effect?

It could be worked around by adding new command options to the 
cman/gfs/... init scripts:

case "$1" in
   start)
	<check boot option>
	# fall through
   force-start)
	# real startup

> Is there a way to detect if the init script was run by the init binary
> or manually from the shell?

I don't know any reliable way to detect it - of course it might be 
possible.

> Should we add an other init command such as "force-start" to override
> the boot parameter check?

I think the cleanest solution would be to add new command options to the 
init scripts. 

Best regards,
Jozsef
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