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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Robert Collins
<robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> Bug 760079 talks about a app server specific checker, but thinking
> about this more perhaps we should bake into all our services and
> scripts a 'dependency checker'.
>
> E.g.
> oops-prune --check-environment
> would:
>  - check it has the needed DB access
>  - and $any $other $needed firewall holes
> in a non-destructive way.
>
...
> What do you think?
>

Seems a fairly sensible idea. I'd be worried a little bit about skew
between what an app thinks it needs to run and what it actually needs.
Perhaps it's best phrased as a dry-run start up, rather than a deps
check?

jml