Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:17:20 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rc.d/watchdogd: a suggestion Message-ID: <4ED29AD0.5060908@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4ED2983B.5050800@FreeBSD.org> References: <4ED2378B.2080601@FreeBSD.org> <4ED2983B.5050800@FreeBSD.org>
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on 27/11/2011 22:06 Doug Barton said the following: > On 11/27/2011 5:13 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >> I have a suggestion to start watchdogd a little bit earlier than it is done now, >> and correspondingly to stop it a little bit later during shutdown: > > I have no particular opinion on changing the timing, but you haven't > said why you want to do it. So that it covers a larger period of system operation. My (one time) use case for it was to prevent a situation where an exiting X server hanged the whole machine. It happened so that watchdogd was stopped before X server got killed. >> @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ >> # >> >> # PROVIDE: watchdogd >> -# REQUIRE: DAEMON cleanvar >> +# REQUIRE: FILESYSTEMS syslogd cleanvar >> +# BEFORE: SERVERS > > Ideally base scripts should not use BEFORE. Change REQUIRE in SERVERS > instead. You mean so that SERVERS requires watchdogd? -- Andriy Gapon
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