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On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:51:17 -0600 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> there is a branch in the OpenRC github repo called supervisor. |
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Interesting! |
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> It is still very rough, and not ready for production, but at this |
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> point I would like to make everyone aware that it exists and ask |
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> folks to go over the code and provide comments. |
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I'm not really qualified to comment on the code but I'm aware that |
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there are lot of ways to get this wrong so please do your homework if |
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you haven't done so already. Your post seems like a good start. :) |
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runit seems highly regarded and we use it at work on CentOS to allow |
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users of the same UNIX group to manage a collection of processes |
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without requiring root or sudo. I wasn't aware of s6 at the time but |
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I've heard that's also good and this makes an interesting read. |
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http://skarnet.org/software/s6/why.html |
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I wonder if it might even make more sense to reuse one of these instead |
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of reinventing the wheel. They are both extremely lightweight. If you |
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feel you can do better though then go for it! |
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Regards, |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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