Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:49:18 -0800 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Cc: rc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: need a shim between postgresql and pgpool startup Message-ID: <86aa3sdqu9.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <4F57D10D.1030501@FreeBSD.org> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:20:13 %2B0000") References: <86r4x4dv1r.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4F57D10D.1030501@FreeBSD.org>
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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> writes: Matthew> For extra credit, write a small routine that attempts to log into Matthew> postgres (or otherwise establish that postgres is up and doing) and Matthew> loops until it succeeds or it has reached a certain maximum number of Matthew> tries. Make this a function called start_precommand() and use the Matthew> run_rc_command facility so it only runs if the script is given some form Matthew> of start argument. Docco on rc script functionality is in rc.subr(8) Matthew> Also look at: Matthew> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/rc-scripts.html Yeah, I'd been staring at those for a few hours, even staring at the source code of rc.subr to sort this out. Thanks for the drop-in answer. I'll see if it does the job on the next reboot. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>; Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion
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