Re: repmgr.service

Sorry for the slow reply on this.

We did make some changes recently, but it seems this was not one of them.

A patch would definitely speed us up and would be most welcome!

> On Dec 17, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Martín Marqués <martin(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I see this hasn't been committed yet into the pgrpms git repo.
>
> Is it under review? If so I can say the changes are good, and if needed
> I can send over a patch for easy applying.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> El 13/11/15 a las 22:59, Justin King escribió:
>> Please modify the repmgr-9.x.service files for the packages.
>>
>> The service files currently have:
>>
>> ExecStop=/usr/bin/kill -TERM ${PIDFILE}
>> ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -HUP ${PIDFILE}
>>
>>
>> /bin/kill does not accept files, you may be thinking of /bin/pkill -f
>>
>> Replace them with:
>>
>> ExecStop=/usr/bin/kill -TERM $MAINPID
>> ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
>>
>>
>> $MAINPID is a special systemd provided variable that references the
>> known PID of the process
>>
>> And add the following under the [Service] section:
>>
>> PIDFile=/var/run/repmgr/repmgrd-9.x.pid
>>
>>
>> This prevents systemd from guessing what the PID is and being wrong when
>> Type=forking
>>
>> As it stands now `systemctl stop repmgrd` and `systemctl reload repmgrd`
>> will always fail.
>>
>> Justin
>
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