Much ado about init [LWN.net]

Much ado about init

Posted Nov 28, 2012 5:03 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Much ado about init by mgb
Parent article: Langasek: Upstart in Debian

/etc/init.d/bind9 restart on Debian stable still sometimes leaves me with the old bind still running. Does Windows do better? I don't know, I've never run a DNS server on Windows. All I know is that Linux *can* do better, and if you took all the time I've wasted working out why I'm still getting wrong lookups and put it together I could have enjoyed a decent quantity of the fine things in life instead.

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Much ado about init

Posted Nov 28, 2012 6:45 UTC (Wed) by mgb (guest, #3226) [Link]

I've never had such a problem restarting bind9. What was your bug number?

Of course bind9 restarts are relatively infrequent. One normally reloads.

Much ado about init

Posted Nov 28, 2012 6:56 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

> What was your bug number?

Unfiled. Does that mean it didn't happen to me?

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Posted Nov 28, 2012 11:45 UTC (Wed) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]

It probably does mean, it was not relevant to you, at least not sufficiently relevant to file a bug ;~)

Well, I had a lot of problems with sysv-init, too (and never filed a bug about it).

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Posted Nov 28, 2012 14:47 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Hah. You're lucky.

I had once to go to our datacenter at about 3am to power-cycle a server because freaking bind9 hanged during the restart after the sshd was killed. There was due to a bug which manifested only if dnssec signing and validation was enabled (which still is not usual) so maintainers missed it.

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Posted Nov 28, 2012 23:35 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> I could have enjoyed a decent quantity of the fine things in life instead.

Can't get enough of EFI, heh?