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<p>> If I take out the backgrounding, it works as expected, BUT it blocks the
<br>> initctl command until I do "initctl emit yyy" from another console.
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<br>> My worry is that if starting MySQL blocks whatever sends the signals
<br>> during startup, then anything else dependent on that signal won't be
<br>> started until MySQL stops.
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<br>> Am I worrying unnecessarily? Or is there something glaringly obvious
<br>> that I'm doing wrong?
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<br>You should add a "service" stanza to your job file. If you have it or "restart" stanza, initctl exits once your main process is started.
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<br>Missing "service" is not very serious  omission, it only affects the initctl command, init itself continues running and processing other jobs and events asynchronously. I think there are quite a few jobs in system sw that misses it.
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<br>--Pekka</p>
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