On Jan 3, 2011, at 09:58, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Jan 2, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> daemondo is a part of MacPorts base. MacPorts uses it for all launchd plists >> it creates, though probably most software doesn't need it. I think it's >> needed for those ports whose daemons do not offer the option not to >> daemonize (which as discussed previously would be a problem for launchd); in >> that case, daemondo can monitor a pid file instead. > > daemondo can also monitor for system configuration changes and act on them > (so for named, it can restart when the network changes).
I thought launchd had that capability built-in as well.... but I can't find anything to confirm that so I may have been imagining it. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
