From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14434 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Sep 2003 22:24:42 -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 17262 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2003 22:24:42 -0000 Message-ID: <3F5E532F.2080204@kentonet.net> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 18:24:47 -0400 From: "Bryan D. Stine" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030909 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" CC: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030909211112.GA20604@data.is> <3F5E4986.8090204@kentonet.net> <20030909214401.GA20767@data.is> <20030909215101.GA20919@data.is> In-Reply-To: <20030909215101.GA20919@data.is> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.81.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig873E2EBB0F041FA42DD1EE38" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE flag 'daemontools' as an alternative to init.d X-Archives-Salt: 87039cb7-0d78-4ff9-9c14-0e4da5f560c1 X-Archives-Hash: 7d7ad650a9a637c45f63b8f959666c32 --------------enig873E2EBB0F041FA42DD1EE38 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > >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. > >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. > >-- hhg > >On 09.09.2003 "Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" wrote: > > >>On 09.09.2003 "Bryan D. Stine" wrote: >> >> >>>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! >>> >>> >>Daemontools has to be run from somewhere yes, just as init.d is >>run through inittab. >> >>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. >> >>-- hhg >> >>-- >>gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> >> > > > > --------------enig873E2EBB0F041FA42DD1EE38 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQE/XlMx4Cdq/Vbot6MRAjcdAJ440u2yqlwqlQClYnZI5kQwYDlh+ACYnxlT p/+/cTOa46NLSiPRsZJ0dA== =xCmI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig873E2EBB0F041FA42DD1EE38--