Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 25 November 2015 19:05:44 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 24/11/2015 17:24, Peter Humphrey wrote:
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> > The installation-default file causes the start-stop-daemon to catch an
> > unexpected interrupt and report an error, even though the chronyd
> > process
> > continues to run.
> > 
> > Any time I run 'strace -ff -o/tmp/chronyd.strace /etc/init.d/chronyd
> > start' the init process runs normally and I'm left with scores of trace
> > files, none of which help because the stray interrupt wasn't detected.
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> Ugh, don't you just hate issues like that? The problem with "solutions"
> like start-stop-daemon is they have to deal with whatever the daemon
> feels like returning (an infinite number of permutations), so support
> for daemon is never complete.

I've been offered one suggestion which will need me to make a local overlay 
with a small code change. I'll try that and see what happens.

> Regardless of what one thinks of systemd, this is one of the things it
> set out to deal with. There's only one way to start something, and it
> behaves one way, making behaviour considerably more predictable.

So it does occasionally have one benefit then.

> [ A bit of a rant I know, but I'm still smarting from years of rancid
> and Cisco logins - basically the same kind of problem you are having on
> a much larger scale...]

I'll be content with my tiny scale, thanks very much  :)

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Rgds
Peter