Version 1.1

Item posted by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray> on Sun May 20 08:52:52 2018.

Version 1.1 is available for download.

This version implements the restart mode.

The restart mode is a special feature of sentinel mode, controlled by the new options --restart-on-exit and --restart-on-signal. In this mode genrc will restart the subsidiary program if it exits with a predefined status code or terminates on a predefined signal. Use this feature to ensure the service provided by the program won't get terminated because of hitting a bug or encountering an unforeseen external condition.

For example:

  genrc --command=COMMAND \
        --sentinel \
	--restart-on-exit='!0' --restart-on-signal='!TERM,QUIT' start

This will ensure that COMMAND will be restarted immediately after it terminates, unless it exits with the status 0 or terminates on SIGTERM or SIGQUIT.