From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13613 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Sep 2003 21:53:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31243 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2003 21:53:17 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 21:51:01 +0000 From: "Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" To: "Bryan D. Stine" Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030909215101.GA20919@data.is> References: <20030909211112.GA20604@data.is> <3F5E4986.8090204@kentonet.net> <20030909214401.GA20767@data.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030909214401.GA20767@data.is> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE flag 'daemontools' as an alternative to init.d X-Archives-Salt: 68d256b4-0872-4961-a944-2e292dd96a6e X-Archives-Hash: d010471ed57c92b4491a54fe2ecead78 Sorry, I forgot to answer the real question :-). There is definitely a positive impact. Daemontools is just an alternative to init.d, it has some advantages over it in my opinion, such as portability, more flexibility with signals, logging and more. You can read up on some of the advantages in the http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/faq.html. Of course, this is a matter of taste. But daemontools is already being used to supervise some services, such as qmail and djbdns. And since it's already in use, I think it'd be the right thing to do to implement some generic mechanism in which services can offer you to use daemontools to supervise them, i.e. the USE flag. -- hhg On 09.09.2003 "Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" wrote: > On 09.09.2003 "Bryan D. Stine" wrote: > > But doesn't daemontools itself use an initscript anyway? I suppose you > > just want this to be used in a way similar to how it works with qmail > > and djbdns? It's an interesting idea, but (excuse my ignorance on this) > > I don't really see what positive impact it will have on the system. Feel > > free to insult and enlighten me! > > Daemontools has to be run from somewhere yes, just as init.d is > run through inittab. > > Daemontools is currently being executed through an init.d script, > which is not the preferred way to do it. Usually you run it from > inittab. > > -- hhg > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list