Re: Delaying Autostart

In article <lKm*Ch8dA@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
Theo  <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

I was going to suggest something similar like that too.  It is worth
checking what the webserver is giving you - some services give a generic
'please wait while I start up' web page which may not be what you want.
Maybe you need to ask for a specific page and count a redirect (to the
'please wait') page as a failure.

In my use case this was enough. You can also direct curl output to grep
and use that as an indicator of your device's desired state.

Why waste a curl call when ping 8.8.8.8 would work with less overhead?

The purpose is to test a specific service *on this machine* has started up,
not generic internet connectivity.

Yeah. And curl is not *that* expensive to run. Maybe even less expensive
than ping, as it does not have the setuid overhead. But who's counting
clock cycles anyway?
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