freebsd stable - Jan 2009 - mydns-mysql starts before mysql has finished starting

Hi list,

This is my first post to this list.
I'm not exactly new to freebsd but I have used GNU/Linux more.

Last week I installed my first FreeBSD 7.1 machine. A base system with
only mc, mysql and mydns-mysql packages. I installed all from pre
compiled packages, not from ports.

When I reboot the machine the mysql server is not finished starting
before mydns tries to start, so it fails leaving me with a not working
DNS server. I have to manually start mydns-mysql.

As a very ugly fix I have edited the startup script for mydns-mysql and
added a 10 sec delay.

I wonder what else I can do. Should I perhaps contact the port
maintainer? How do I reach him/her?

TIA,
Mikael Bak
Budapest, Hungary

I'll see if I'm still maintainer and see if there's a better way of
doing things.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mikael Bak <mikael@t-online.hu>
Sent: 17 January 2009 19:20
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: mydns-mysql starts before mysql has finished starting

Hi list,

This is my first post to this list.
I'm not exactly new to freebsd but I have used GNU/Linux more.

Last week I installed my first FreeBSD 7.1 machine. A base system with
only mc, mysql and mydns-mysql packages. I installed all from pre
compiled packages, not from ports.

When I reboot the machine the mysql server is not finished starting
before mydns tries to start, so it fails leaving me with a not working
DNS server. I have to manually start mydns-mysql.

As a very ugly fix I have edited the startup script for mydns-mysql and
added a 10 sec delay.

I wonder what else I can do. Should I perhaps contact the port
maintainer? How do I reach him/her?

TIA,
Mikael Bak
Budapest, Hungary
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Hey Mikael,

Thank you for your feedback.

To find out a port's maintainer, you can look into the makefile
under CVS:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/dns/mydns/Makefile

It looks to be:
MAINTAINER=	ale@FreeBSD.org

If you don't a get a response from this developer, then try
the generic "ports@freebsd.org" address.

As far as fixing the problem, I think a trick might be to do
something like this:

while /etc/rc.d/mysql status = up && mydns == exit failure
  ...

You might want to fork off the process to do this so if
mysql hangs then your startup script doesn't hang the
boot sequence waiting for it..

-Alfred

* Mikael Bak <mikael@t-online.hu> [090117 11:38]
wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> This is my first post to this list.
> I'm not exactly new to freebsd but I have used GNU/Linux more.
> 
> Last week I installed my first FreeBSD 7.1 machine. A base system with
> only mc, mysql and mydns-mysql packages. I installed all from pre
> compiled packages, not from ports.
> 
> When I reboot the machine the mysql server is not finished starting
> before mydns tries to start, so it fails leaving me with a not working
> DNS server. I have to manually start mydns-mysql.
> 
> As a very ugly fix I have edited the startup script for mydns-mysql and
> added a 10 sec delay.
> 
> I wonder what else I can do. Should I perhaps contact the port
> maintainer? How do I reach him/her?
> 
> TIA,
> Mikael Bak
> Budapest, Hungary
> _______________________________________________
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-- 
- Alfred Perlstein

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:20:04PM +0100, Mikael Bak
wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> This is my first post to this list.
> I'm not exactly new to freebsd but I have used GNU/Linux more.
> 
> Last week I installed my first FreeBSD 7.1 machine. A base system with
> only mc, mysql and mydns-mysql packages. I installed all from pre
> compiled packages, not from ports.
> 
> When I reboot the machine the mysql server is not finished starting
> before mydns tries to start, so it fails leaving me with a not working
> DNS server. I have to manually start mydns-mysql.
> 
> As a very ugly fix I have edited the startup script for mydns-mysql and
> added a 10 sec delay.
> 
> I wonder what else I can do. Should I perhaps contact the port
> maintainer? How do I reach him/her?
http://www.freshports.org/dns/mydns/ (see Maintained by:)


Andrew

Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> It looks to be:
> MAINTAINER=	ale@FreeBSD.org
> 
Alfred, Simon, Andrew,
Thanks for the fast responses.

I have contacted the maintainer on the above address.

Thanks,
Mikael