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

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

[Sebastian Werner]

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

[Geert Bevin]

The qmail ebuilds have been created to exactly mirror the setup that's
explained in the Qmail Howto v2. I've known this to work very well and
preferred to maintain the structure as is.

Daemontools are not used by the gentoo init system, they are currently
only used by qmail afaik.

On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 20:22, Sebastian Werner wrote:
> 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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> 32427 Minden
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