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Personally, when using qmail and djbdns, I found daemontools to be a bit |
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of an annoyance. But, as you said, it's purely a matter of taste. I'm |
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all about the availability of choice when benefits can result. |
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I'll leave it up to real Gentoo devs as to whether or not a USE flag |
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would be the best choice (can't think of anything better off the top of |
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my head), but it certainly seems worth a looksee. |
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Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson wrote: |
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>Sorry, I forgot to answer the real question :-). There is definitely |
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>a positive impact. |
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>Daemontools is just an alternative to init.d, it has some advantages |
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>over it in my opinion, such as portability, more flexibility with |
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>signals, logging and more. You can read up on some of the advantages |
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>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 |
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>used to supervise some services, such as qmail and djbdns. And since |
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>it's already in use, I think it'd be the right thing to do to implement |
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>some generic mechanism in which services can offer you to use |
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>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@××××.is> wrote: |
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>>On 09.09.2003 "Bryan D. Stine" <admin@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>>But doesn't daemontools itself use an initscript anyway? I suppose you |
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>>>just want this to be used in a way similar to how it works with qmail |
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>>>and djbdns? It's an interesting idea, but (excuse my ignorance on this) |
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>>>I don't really see what positive impact it will have on the system. Feel |
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>>>free to insult and enlighten me! |
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>>Daemontools has to be run from somewhere yes, just as init.d is |
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>>run through inittab. |
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>>Daemontools is currently being executed through an init.d script, |
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>>which is not the preferred way to do it. Usually you run it from |
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>>inittab. |
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>>-- hhg |
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