Init script start does not sleep long enough to ensure successful start

[promisedlandt]

In the init script start function, there's a section:

sleep 1

# make sure it's still running. some errors occur only after startup
status &> /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo_fail
    exit 1
fi

However, errors like not being able to connect to RabbitMQ occur on my low-power system only after about 4 seconds.
On the other hand, increasing the sleep time would be an inconvenience when everythign works fine, so I'm not sure what a good solution would be here.

[portertech]

@promisedlandt Seems that this issue is related to https://github.com/sensu/sensu-build

I believe we are still planning to ship an embedded runit with the Sensu packages, killing the need for these init scripts.

@joemiller Thoughts? Should we attack runit now?

[promisedlandt]

@portertech Not sure how that's related, but apparently runit can run under sysv-init, so I'm cool with that. It would solve #354 as well I believe, as runit doesn't need pidfiles?

Off topic: I got some days off next month, is there anywhere in Sensu I can help out with mediocre programming and low sysadmin skills?

[joemiller]

Yeah, might be a good time to try to embed runit now. We'll have to take a
look at chef-omnibus and see what techniques they used to get it going on
each platform.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Nils Landt notifications@github.comwrote:

@portertech https://github.com/portertech Not sure how that's related,
but apparently runit can run under sysv-init, so I'm cool with that. It
would solve #354 #354 as well I
believe, as runit doesn't need pidfiles?

Off topic: I got some days off next month, is there anywhere in Sensu I
can help out with mediocre programming and low sysadmin skills?

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[nstielau]

@promisedlandt Not sure about where to code right now, but a blog post, docs or being helpful in #sensu are great ways to make sensu more successful.

More plugins/handlers are always great too ;)

[portertech]

sensu-0.9.12.beta.5-5 has an embedded runit w/ some tooling.

/opt/sensu/bin/sensu-ctl configure
/opt/sensu/bin/sensu-ctl sensu-client enable