[stgt] [RFC] example init.d script for tgtd

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Tue Oct 21 13:27:04 CEST 2008


ronnie sahlberg schrieb:

(...)

>> the RHEL script will probably fail to start here (may depend on machine,
>> load etc.):
>>
>>        daemon tgtd $TGTD_OPTIONS
>>
>>        # read the config        tgt-admin -e -c "${TGTD_CONFIG}"
>>
>>
>> tgtd starts in the background immediately, but does not yet accept commands
>> from tgtadm. So adding "sleep 1" between starting tgtd and tgt-admin should
>> help.
>>
> 
> Having to explicitely add a sleep in scripts is a bit dodgy.
> 
> Maybe better to enhance tgtadm to try-and-retry for x seconds before
> giving up and thus hiding this
> ugly race from the average user?

Or tgtd shouldn't background when it's not ready to accept commands yet.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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