[Pdns-users] pdns_recursor & Upstart

[Daniel L. Miller]

I've made a pair of simple Upstart scripts for controlling pdns & 
pdns-recursor.  For pdns -

/etc/init/pdns.conf
start on started mysql
respawn
respawn limit 10 5
exec /usr/sbin/pdns_server --daemon=no --guardian=no

This works without issues.  Since mysql activates extremely early in the 
boot process this makes DNS available immediately.  Then I also have the 
recursor -
/etc/init/pdns-recursor.conf
start on started pdns
respawn
respawn limit 10 5
exec /usr/sbin/pdns_recursor

While occasionally this works on boot - I've found a problem more 
usually occurs.  My dmesg output:
[   57.783902] init: pdns-recursor main process (1555) terminated with 
status 1
[   57.783925] init: pdns-recursor main process ended, respawning
[   57.787758] init: pdns-recursor main process (1577) terminated with 
status 1
[   57.787782] init: pdns-recursor main process ended, respawning
[   57.791525] init: pdns-recursor main process (1580) terminated with 
status 1
[   57.791548] init: pdns-recursor main process ended, respawning
[   57.795029] init: pdns-recursor main process (1584) terminated with 
status 1
[   57.795052] init: pdns-recursor main process ended, respawning
[   57.798537] init: pdns-recursor main process (1585) terminated with 
status 1
[   57.798561] init: pdns-recursor main process ended, respawning
[   57.802003] init: pdns-recursor main process (1586) terminated with 
status 1
[   57.802026] init: pdns-recursor main process ended, respawning
[   57.805420] init: pdns-recursor main process (1587) terminated with 
status 1
[   57.805441] init: pdns-recursor main process ended, respawning
[   57.808947] init: pdns-recursor main process (1588) terminated with 
status 1
[   57.808970] init: pdns-recursor main process ended, respawning
[   57.812523] init: pdns-recursor main process (1589) terminated with 
status 1
[   57.812545] init: pdns-recursor main process ended, respawning
[   57.816099] init: pdns-recursor main process (1590) terminated with 
status 1
[   57.816120] init: pdns-recursor main process ended, respawning
[   57.819635] init: pdns-recursor main process (1591) terminated with 
status 1
[   57.819657] init: pdns-recursor respawning too fast, stopped

I don't see why this is happening.  A manual "start pdns-recursor" works 
just fine - so the problem isn't the execution from Upstart, but there 
must be some timing/event issue I'm not seeing.  Any ideas?
-- 
Daniel