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The qmail ebuilds have been created to exactly mirror the setup that's |
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explained in the Qmail Howto v2. I've known this to work very well and |
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preferred to maintain the structure as is. |
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Daemontools are not used by the gentoo init system, they are currently |
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only used by qmail afaik. |
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On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 20:22, Sebastian Werner wrote: |
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> Hey |
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> some questions. If i want to install qmail and some other tools like |
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> djbdns on a new server, why i need these daemontools? OK, nice piece of |
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> software but i don't like to handle with to concurrent systems to |
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> control which process will be started while system boot. |
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> Please,could you explain what the current init-sheme of gentoo does? It |
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> seems to copy files to the dynamic ramdisk and controls process with |
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> links and files in this memory. Right? This sounds nice, but what is the |
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> reason for daemontools. Daemontools have a nice function to restart |
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> killed processes. Is this features currently supported by gentoo's |
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> init-concept? |
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> Minit (http://www.fefe.de/minit/) from Felix von Leitner seems also be a |
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> good candidat for this work. A small init with dependecy support and |
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> restart of killed-processes-function. |
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> Thanks in advance |
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> Sebastian Werner |
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