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Missing 'exec' in entrypoint shell form

Reports missing exec in the shell form of ENTRYPOINT command.

To ensure that docker stop will signal any long running ENTRYPOINT executable correctly, it needs to be started with exec.

See Dockerfile reference for more information.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

DockerFileEntrypointWithoutExec
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Dockerfile

Inspection ID: DockerFileEntrypointWithoutExec

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection DockerFileEntrypointWithoutExec

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025