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

[Petre Rodan <petre.rodan@ravantivirus.com>]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:11:12PM +0000, Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson wrote:
> Hello friends !
> 
> I'd like to propose a new USE flag.
> 
> On my systems I've added a 'daemontools' USE flag
> as an alternative to the current init.d for
> service management. To be a true metadistribution,
> it doesn't seem fair to let init.d have a monopoly
> on providing service management for packages.
> 
> For those who haven't heard of it before, daemontools
> is a process supervisor that can manage services.
> For more information see http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
> 
> Integration of this functionality into ebuilds is in
> most cases very trivial. Packages that wish to
> provide daemontools USE flag support provide
> a 'run' file, that is copied to a service directory,
> /etc/daemontools/servicename, or something in that
> direction.  We could even have some automated facility
> for preparing service directories.
> 
> People can then choose what to use for running a particular
> service, /etc/init.d or linking the service directory into
> /service if the package provides daemontools support.
> 
> I've opened a bug for this (#28294), so what do people
> think of this?
> 
> -- hhg
> 
> 
> --
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
> 

I think this is a great idea.

I am currently using daemontools on many machines and I've found that any of the following daemons can very easily be 'supervised':

apache, clockspeed, crond, fcron, cupsd, dictd, ftpd (publicfile), junkbuster, klogd, lircd, mysqld, nmbd, mysqld, rsync, smbd, snmpd, snort, squid, sshd, stunnel, syslogd, thttpd, etc.

some DOS attempts can be circumvented by using this type of software.

bye,
peter

--
Petre Rodan
Senior Network Engineer
GeCAD Software - RAV Division

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