[rabbitmq-discuss] PPA debs restart rabbit

[Gavin M. Roy]

I believe he’s saying that when you install the deb (or upgrade it) it automatically starts or restarts rabbitmq-server, causing less than desirable behavior.

From: Simon MacMullen simon at rabbitmq.com
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Date: June 20, 2014 at 1:07:33 PM
To: Discussions about RabbitMQ rabbitmq-discuss at lists.rabbitmq.com, Aaron Westendorf aaron at agoragames.com
Subject:  Re: [rabbitmq-discuss] PPA debs restart rabbit  

On 17/06/14 15:54, Aaron Westendorf wrote:  
> We're using the PPA for rabbit but the current debian files are not  
> suitable for production deployments because they stop and restart the  
> process. I understand the desire to start the process if it was not  
> already running, but embedding the restart logic in the deb means that  
> users have no control over the process. As it is very common to use the  
> PPA within the context of a configuration management system (Salt, Chef,  
> etc), it would be best to leave that decision up to the user.  

What do you mean by "restart logic"?  

I could see the point in adding some START_THE_SERVER variable to  
/etc/default/rabbitmq-server, would that help?  

Cheers, Simon  

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