I remember a time when gentoo (enoch?) used djb's daemontools to manages
services. Why was this changed?

-John

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 08:15, Olivier Crête wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 07:10, John Nilsson wrote:
> > While on the topic:
> > 	Is it resonable to patch gdm so that /etc/init.d/xdm is zapped after
> > gdm is killed by selecting reboot/shutdown from the login screen?
> > It just annoys me that the script errors while shutting down.
> 
> 
> This is imho a misfeature of the current initscripts system. The
> started-ness of an application is only checked against a file and not
> against the current real status. We should probably add a possible
> "status()" function to them (that would default to true) that would
> check if the service is still running in a custom way.. And zap it if it
> isnt... The problem there is with dependencies, should they be stopped
> if the service died? But the current system is clearly broken..