Bug #779
logic/dispatcher does not daemonize properly
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | 07/08/2011 | |
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| Priority: | Medium | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | Giorgos Gousios | % Done: | 100% |
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| Category: | logic | Spent time: | - | |
| Target version: | v0.5.1 |
Description
Something seems to be wrong, the dispatcher dies if the controlling terminal dies, even when it's supposed to have daemonized.
Associated revisions
Default log configuration: syslog on Linux
Refs: #779
History
#1 Updated by Giorgos Gousios almost 13 years ago
The situation is as follows:
-On the Mac the bug report is accurate, when the terminal process that starts the dispatcher goes away, the dispatcher dies when the first msg is received from the queue
-On Linux, the dispatcher process does not die when the controlling terminal dies. Instead, it cannot report any logging messages.
The root cause seems to be the fact that the logging module was configured to write the log messages to stdout by default, so when it cannot write to it because the console stream is dead, it will fail, in a system dependent way
To solve this, we decided to just use sensible defaults for logging: syslog on Linux. Users (incl Mac users) wanting to override this behaviour can copy/configure the logging.conf file to the directory from which they start the dispatcher.
#2 Updated by Giorgos Gousios almost 13 years ago
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
#3 Updated by Giorgos Gousios almost 13 years ago
Added some documentation in revision 3a4e3bac