Daniel Even in production, if mysql does not start, continuing with starting xrootd is pointless (right?). I fully agree about trying to recover, retrying and whatever it takes. I'll open a ticket. Jacek On 03/05/2014 10:43 AM, Daniel L. Wang wrote: > The thing is, for now, it should abort. In production, I'm not sure it > should. At the very least, it should retry for some time. > > -Daniel > (this wouldn't be such a problem if the worker embedded its own mysqld > or was responsible for starting it) > > On 03/05/2014 09:27 AM, Becla, Jacek wrote: >> Daniel >> >> I noticed xrootd will happily start even if it can't connect >> to mysql. It will only print a message: >> >> Configration invalid: Unable to connect to MySQL with config: >> >> which can be easily overlooked. I propose to make this a fatal >> error and abort. Sounds ok? Should I open a ticket? >> >> Jacek > ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the QSERV-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=QSERV-L&A=1