[Pdns-users] What signal to tell PDNS to shut down?

[frank+pdns at tembo.be]

Hi Bert and Nick,

Docker will issue a SIGTERM, and assumes an app responds to that. It is up to the container to “do what’s needed” upon receiving a SIGTERM. So it’s best practice to make sure SIGTERM does the right thing…. When using Docker, you should expect your container to be started, stopped, restarted elsewhere etc.

Nick: As Brian said: use tini either in your Dockerfile, or when starting the container by using the --init parameter…

Frank



> On 13 Jan 2019, at 21:48, bert hubert <bert.hubert at powerdns.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 08:32:33PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
>>> sends a `SIGTERM` to PID 1, waits some amount of time, and then sends
>>> SIGKILL to force it to stop. It’s having to resort to SIGKILL, because
>>> `pdns_server` doesn’t respond to `SIGTERM`. What is the correct signal to
>>> tell PDNS to shut down?
> 
>> The problem is not with pdns, it's with docker: strange things happen if you
>> run the application as pid 1. For an explanation see: https://hackernoon.com/my-process-became-pid-1-and-now-signals-behave-strangely-b05c52cc551c
> 
> In addition, you could ask powerdns to stop using pdns_control. 
> 
> 	Bert
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