Re: [Firebird-devel] Restart fails on Suse 10.x

[Alex P. <pe...@in...>]

Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 12:11:06PM -0400, Rick Debay wrote:
> 
>>Executing '/etc/init.d/firebird restart' will return 'done' for both the
>>stop and start, but 'netstat -l' won't show anything listening on port
>>3050 or port gds_db.  Executing '/etc/init.d/firebird start' (even after
>>a supposedly successful restart) and 'netstat -l' will show a process
>>listening on gds_db.
> 
> 
> The same I have on SuSE 10.1. The problem is probably in the fact that
> 'stop' finishes before the server (and guard) is actually finished.
> I found two solutions. First is a dirty trick - put short delay between
> '$0 stop' and '$0 start' (0.3 s is enough for me). Second, which I would
> prefer, is to replace "stop" section with
> 
>   killproc ${FIREBIRD}/bin/fbserver
> 
> This is even more consistent as "start" section uses startproc.
> 

Michal, I prefer pidfile associated approach (this will simplify use of 
use of mulliple instances). I commit 'sleep 1' to 2.0 release, but we 
must return to HEAD install. Can we use something like

killproc -pid `cat $pidfile`

?