From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shepherd should not reboot on exit when running as root
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 14:51:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leypifq4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tudq8uxl.fsf@systemreboot.net> (Arun Isaac's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2022 19:23:42 +0530")
Hello!
Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:
> If shepherd is run as root, it assumes it is the init system and reboots
> the system. Since shepherd is not just an init system, but can also be
> used as a non-init process to manage other daemons, this is probably not
> good default behaviour. At the very least, it would be nice to have a
> command-line option to disable this behaviour.
>
> Just yesterday, I was tinkering with shepherd on a production server
> running Debian as the host system, and ended up accidentally rebooting
> it. Needless to say, I went through much pain and suffering! :-) I
> suppose I should count myself very lucky that it didn't halt the system!
> :-P
Oops, fixed in 7c380590164ea8ee40de46059d07e08a48963577, thanks!
Ludo’.
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2022-01-26 13:53 Shepherd should not reboot on exit when running as root Arun Isaac
2022-02-05 13:51 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-02-07 5:00 ` Arun Isaac
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