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Feature #2825

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Systemd service should default to graceful stop

Added by ahasenack about 7 years ago. Updated about 7 years ago.

Status:
Fixed
Priority:
Normal
Category:
core
Target version:
1.4.46
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Description

Originally reported as just a bug in the sysv script of the debian and ubuntu packages of lighttpd (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lighttpd/+bug/1707312), turns out there is no equivalent to a graceful stop/restart in the systemd service file for lighttpd.

This diff was suggested by Vasya Pupkin on that launchpad bug (I refreshed it for the current 1.4 git tree):

--- a/doc/systemd/lighttpd.service
+++ b/doc/systemd/lighttpd.service
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
 ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID
 Restart=on-failure
+KillMode=mixed
+KillSignal=SIGINT
+TimeoutStopSec=60

As far as I know, there is no clean way to have a "graceful-restart" systemd action alongside the normal "restart" one, so the above changes behavior a bit in the sense that all actions that involve a "stop" will send the SIGINT signal instead of SIGTERM, unless the timeout is reached, in which case SIGTERM it is.

The argument for KillMode=mixed was made in this comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lighttpd/+bug/1707312/comments/26

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 #2

Updated by ahasenack about 7 years ago

The USR1 signal may indeed satisfy the requirements of a graceful-restart, so the remaining case is a graceful-shutdown, i.e., wait for existing connections to terminate and not accept new ones. You might decide it's not worth the trouble, given that this systemd service file change affects all stop-related actions, that's fine. I just wanted to bring it up.

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Updated by gstrauss about 7 years ago

  • Category set to core
  • Status changed from New to Fixed
  • Target version changed from 1.4.x to 1.4.46

See the section "signals" in InstallFromSource. Graceful shutdown is already handled with SIGINT, and this is available in existing versions of lighttpd.

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