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

["Bryan D. Stine" <admin@kentonet.net>]

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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'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.

Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson wrote:

>Sorry, I forgot to answer the real question :-). There is definitely
>a positive impact.
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>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.
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>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.
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>-- hhg
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>On 09.09.2003 "Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" <hhg@data.is> wrote:
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>>On 09.09.2003 "Bryan D. Stine" <admin@kentonet.net> wrote:
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>>>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!
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>>Daemontools has to be run from somewhere yes, just as init.d is
>>run through inittab.
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>>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.
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>>-- hhg
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