Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE flag 'daemontools' as an alternative to init.d

[Juan Jesus Prieto <jjptapia@eresmas.com>]

Hi all,

   This is the first time I write to that list and I want to take this 
opportunity to thank everyone for this great distribution.

El Mié 10 Sep 2003 00:24, Bryan D. Stine escribió:
> Personally, when using qmail and djbdns, I found daemontools to be a bit
> of an annoyance. But, as you said, it's purely a matter of taste. I'm
> all about the availability of choice when benefits can result.

   I have been working with daemontools in another distributions (I'm LEAF 
developer) and I agree with you: daemontools is a bit of an annoyance :-P. 
But sometimes is a great help. For example I use 'supervise' to make a bash 
daemon to control the log file size from dansguardian (dansg over embedded 
system) using a pipe file. Thanks to daemontools I have been able to build a 
simple solution :-).

   Sometimes, if the system is not correctly configured, the /var/log 
partition in LEAF may exceed. Then a multicron script review every 15 min 
(programmable) the partitions size and tries to clean the partition to open 
some space, but in that previous situation the internal proxy-cache (squid) 
crash if it try to write its logs in a partition overflowed. If you run squid 
under 'supervise' as 'squid -D -N', you may capture the stderr and stdout 
with multilog and restart the process if it was down.

  You also may use daemontools to avoid some kind of DoS logs-flood.

> I'll leave it up to real Gentoo devs as to whether or not a USE flag
> would be the best choice (can't think of anything better off the top of
> my head), but it certainly seems worth a looksee.

-- 
Juan Jesus Prieto Tapia
jjptapia@eresmas.com

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