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shepherd respawns a service even when it's disabled

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Message #13 received at 64008-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name>
Cc: 64008-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64008: shepherd respawns a service even when it's disabled
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 18:49:44 +0200

Hi Attila,

Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name> skribis:

> i'm in a situation where my service quits after a few seconds of CPU usage (i.e. the default-respawn-limit is not triggered). therefore shepherd keeps restarting it, practically in a busy loop.
>
> suggested solution:
>
> maybe respawn-service should check for the disabled state, so that the admin can intervene by `herd disable myservice`.

Turns out the service controller was ignoring the ‘enabled?’  flag,
leaving it up to the caller to check it.

This is fixed by Shepherd commit
7c88d67076a0bb1d9014b3bc23ed9c68f1c702ab.

Thanks again,
Ludo’.

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