FS#24027 - Using POST_DOWN in Netcfg Causes Daemons to Be Stopped on Shutdown with Redundancy

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sara Fauzia (sfauzia) - Sunday, 01 May 2011, 18:04 GMT
Last edited by Rémy Oudompheng (remyoudompheng) - Monday, 06 June 2011, 06:26 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Arch Projects
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

I have two daemons (dropbox and openntpd) started by the POST_UP line in my netcfg profile, and one really annoying thing is that on shutdown, Arch tries to shutdown all the daemons, so it will shut these, and then when it tries to try to shut down my wireless, POST_DOWN is activated, and it tries again to shut down dropbox and openntpd, which echoes "FAIL" as this has already been done. On the other hand, I do not wish to make null my POST_DOWN variable because if I ever want to turn off my internet but not turn off my computer (I use Arch on a laptop, so this happens often), then these two daemons won't shut down as desired.

For sake of completeness, here are the pertinent lines from my wireless configuration file (/etc/network.d/wireless-wpa-config):
POST_UP='/etc/rc.d/openntpd start && /etc/rc.d/dropboxd-userspace start || true'
PRE_DOWN='/etc/rc.d/openntpd stop && /etc/rc.d/dropboxd-userspace stop || true'

Reproducing this is pretty simple. Just start a daemon in POST_UP and stop it in POST_DOWN, restart netcfg for this to take effect, then try shutting down Arch. I am using the latest netcfg, 2.5.4-1.
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Closed by  Rémy Oudompheng (remyoudompheng)
Monday, 06 June 2011, 06:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  The behaviour is normal and services should be checked for status before attempting any stop action.
Comment by Sara Fauzia (sfauzia) - Monday, 02 May 2011, 04:45 GMT
How can I change the category to "Arch Linux Project", for that is what netcfg is? Hopefully someone with the proper permissions can do this for me.
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Saturday, 07 May 2011, 10:13 GMT
done
Comment by Rémy Oudompheng (remyoudompheng) - Monday, 06 June 2011, 06:23 GMT
Sara, this is exactly the intended behaviour. Archlinux of course stops daemons on shutdown, and netcfg executes the given command.

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