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

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

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 05:00:37PM +1000, Mark Francis wrote:
> I have created bugs 28938, 28940, 28941, 28943 and 28945 to add daemontools 
> support
> to the init scripts for samba, xinetd, fcron, cupsd and syslog-ng. Feel 
> free to try
> it and see what you think. 

Great idea.
 
> I discuss my approach in bug 28294. To summarise:
> 
> 1. daemontools is not required but can optionally be used if available.
> 
> 2. The daemontools service directory for each daemon is located in 
> /var/daemontools

/var/service/ is already being used by sys-apps/supervise-scripts ...

> 
> 3. This method has flexibility in that a user can choose to start each 
> daemon in
> one of 3 different ways. The existing method (usually start-stop-daemon) in 
> an init
> script, supervise from an init script, or svscan by creating a link to 
> /var/daemontools/$name
> at /service/$name. Running supervise from the init script has the 
> advantages of both
> init dependancy support and daemon monitoring.
> 
> 4. No daemontools USE flag is required using this method.
> 
> Mark
> 

bye,
peter
 
> 
> Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson wrote:
> 
> >On 11.09.2003 Frederick Grim <fgrim@norby.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>#!/bin/sh
> >>
> >>exec /usr/bin/tcpserver 0 111 /sbin/portmap -d 2>&1
> >>
> >>with it's associated log/run script
> >>
> >>#!/bin/sh
> >>exec /usr/bin/setuidgid nobody /usr/bin/multilog t s2500000
> >>/var/log/supervise/portmap
> >>
> >>which bypasses these dependancies.  I have found, using daemontools
> >>that the system logger is only useful for a few broken daemons that
> >>can't be configured to log to stdout. 
> >>
> >>So this is sort of an important point.  If runscripts are included 
> >>will the logging by default be to the stdout or to syslog? 
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I think it should definitely be stdout by default, even if it were
> >just to force that support into all packages who wish to provide
> >daemontools support, so that you dont install a program that claims
> >to support 'daemontools' but doesnt allow to use another logger than
> >syslog.
> >
> >Perhaps we should come up with some method in which 'run' files
> >are installed?
> >
> >Should we have a /etc/supervise/packagename or
> >/etc/daemontools/packagename, or something like that?
> >
> >- hhg
> >
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> >
> > 
> >
> 
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