Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:12:09 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rc.d scripts to control multiple instances of the same daemon? Message-ID: <1372191129.1109.90.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <20937.62239.626943.350086@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <20937.62239.626943.350086@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
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On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 15:44 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > I'm in the process of (re)writing an rc.d script for kadmind > (security/krb5). Unlike the main Kerberos daemon, kadmind needs to > have a separate instance for each realm on the server -- it can't > support multiple realms in a single process. What I need to be able > to do: > > 1) Have different flags and pidfiles for each instance. > 2) Be able to start, stop, restart, and status each individual > instance by giving its name on the command line. > 3) Have all instances start/stop automatically when a specific > instance isn't specified. > > I've looked around for examples of good practice to emulate, and > haven't found much. The closest to what I want looks to be > vboxheadless, but I'm uncomfortable with the amount of mechanism from > rc.subr that it needs to reimplement. Are there any better examples? The one like that I use the most is "service netif restart fpx0" but I'm not sure the complex network stuff will be the cleanest example of anything except how to do complex network stuff. :) -- Ian
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