Automatic service restart after updates
Project description
restarter
restarter is a little utility to restart services if referenced objects like executables or shared libraries have changed on disk. The goal is to ensure that all services run current versions of their software. This is important for example after security updates.
Usage
restarter takes a pidfile as required argument. If the service is stale, that means there are replaced objects still held in memory, restarter executes the restart command passed via the –restart option:
restarter --restart "/etc/init.d/atd restart" /var/run/atd.pid
There is also the possibility to speficy a “hard restart” command that is executed if the regular restart command fails.
See the output of restarter –help for a list of all supported options.
Stopped Services
Stopped services are gracefully ignored: restarter does nothing if the pidfile does not exist or the pid referenced therein is not running. This behaviour can be modified with the –fail option. Note that restarter always fails when the service was running but did not come up again after restart.
Release History
0.4.4 (2014-10-10)
Add Python 3.3 compatibility.
Correct source URL.
Correct packaging issues.
0.4.2 (2011-10-25)
Ignore trailing lines in pid files as produced by PostgreSQL.
0.4.1 (2011-08-03)
Packaging issue: version.txt was not included in source distribution.
0.4 (2011-03-18)
Improve error messages.
Fix double exception on restart failures.
0.3 (2011-02-16)
–exclude/-x specifies mmap’ed objects to ignore.
Add a little bit of documentation in README.txt.
0.2 (2011-02-14)
Packaging issues.
0.1b1
Initial public release.
Project details
Download files
Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.
Source Distributions
File details
Details for the file restarter-0.4.4.zip
.
File metadata
- Download URL: restarter-0.4.4.zip
- Upload date:
- Size: 14.6 kB
- Tags: Source
- Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
File hashes
Algorithm | Hash digest | |
---|---|---|
SHA256 | cb65c64fc6668af3b560241d4d7c0f82b7d6f99b097e3dbbbcc9cea6a1ea9435 |
|
MD5 | 4cc7451f9982200b0e763a097c6efd8e |
|
BLAKE2b-256 | ccbbe2f1789241ede11f159d9c6e77de61f55ed65959ff89b3984edb1be8c0ed |
File details
Details for the file restarter-0.4.4.tar.gz
.
File metadata
- Download URL: restarter-0.4.4.tar.gz
- Upload date:
- Size: 8.2 kB
- Tags: Source
- Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
File hashes
Algorithm | Hash digest | |
---|---|---|
SHA256 | 685c661b96490f3953ca1d078224ec5ae1aa887c91de95f67e8f527742958a72 |
|
MD5 | 01b45f19998b1f73de5be0c77823615b |
|
BLAKE2b-256 | 8e4809b66933394d88cab87d13b2265dfa20936bb0289c83794949377f147f36 |