[gentoo-dev] QMail and StartUp construct of gentoo vs. minit

[Sebastian Werner <sebastian@werner-productions.de>]

Hey

some questions. If i want to install qmail and some other tools like
djbdns on a new server, why i need these daemontools? OK, nice piece of
software but i don't like to handle with to concurrent systems to
control which process will be started while system boot. 

Please,could you explain what the current init-sheme of gentoo does? It
seems to copy files to the dynamic ramdisk and controls process with
links and files in this memory. Right? This sounds nice, but what is the
reason for daemontools. Daemontools have a nice function to restart
killed processes. Is this features currently supported by gentoo's
init-concept?

Minit (http://www.fefe.de/minit/) from Felix von Leitner seems also be a
good candidat for this work. A small init with dependecy support and
restart of killed-processes-function.

Thanks in advance

Sebastian Werner

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