From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30673 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Sep 2003 12:19:08 -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 30544 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2003 12:19:07 -0000 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:19:05 +0300 From: Petre Rodan To: "Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030911121905.GA18513@peter.rav.local> References: <20030909211112.GA20604@data.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030909211112.GA20604@data.is> X-Sender: petre.rodan@ravantivirus.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Sep 2003 12:19:05.0981 (UTC) FILETIME=[E4F1B2D0:01C3785E] Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE flag 'daemontools' as an alternative to init.d X-Archives-Salt: 7db97620-96a1-4a3e-9423-4ef17bd63b92 X-Archives-Hash: e57daf7b82e48e5d6f10d4525ba12caa 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tel/Fax: +40-21-321-7803 Hotline: +40-21-321-7859 This message is confidential. It may also be privileged or otherwise protected by work product immunity or other legal rules. If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system; you should not copy the message or disclose its contents to anyone. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list