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On Friday 29 February 2008 23:23:34 Ed Wildgoose wrote: |
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> > [2] I use busybox as a shell and can support it when it's internal |
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> > start-stop-daemon applet disabled (as OpenRC has it's own variant). |
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> I guess I could just check it out instead of asking but.... What's |
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> missing from the busybox s-s-daemon? |
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> I am using the busybox version 95% successfully with baselayout-2 for |
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> example (just simple stuff mind). The only thing it's breaking on right |
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> now is a --test option which doesn't seem to exist? |
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> I'm not that fussed, I'm just curious? |
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s-s-d when used in an OpenRC service remembers how the daemon is started so it |
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can poll to see if it's still running or not. We also use this ability to |
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ensure the daemon really starts. A lot of daemons love to fork (and return |
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success) before checking config and system for sanity, so sometimes it's |
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needed. |
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OpenRC variant also works better for finding daemons on the whole, especially |
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if you upgrade an already running daemon. |
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Plus, it supports more OS's than busybox - but to be fair, busybox only |
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supports Linux. |
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It's also missing chroot and env options from the upstream Debian version. |
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It's also missing the Gentoo extras for PAM limits support and redirecting the |
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daemons stdout/stderr to log files. |
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It also requires the crappy use of oknodo. |
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It fails to search for daemon arguments when stopping (important for say |
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daemons using python without pidfiles) |
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I'm not sure that busybox would take any patches to add much of the above as |
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most would add more bloat for sure. |
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Thanks |
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Roy |
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