On Thursday 09 December 2004 10:45 am, Dave "doughnut" Fogarty wrote: > One should, of course, keep in mind that "theDJBway" is just that. It is > not the RedHat way. If you start to head down the DJB path, you'll loose > a lot of help from a lot of people. Most people try to do RedHat systems > the RedHat way, Debian systems the Debian way, etc. >
I use daemontools on a number of different distributions. There are no conflicts, and as Wayne pointed out, you can use daemontools in addition to the usual Linux startup and service management tools. As far as getting help, you don't lose anything. Lots of folks use djb's software, and djb's own instructions are simple and clear. You'll find Wayne's articles at the top of Google searches for djbdns and daemontools, as well as boatloads of other good resources. One slick feature of daemontools is the svscan and supervise daemons keep services running. If a service dies unexpectedly, it will automatically be restarted. And linking to the /service directory is lots simpler than writing an init script, or mucking with inetd or xinetd. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder check out my new book, the "Linux Cookbook", the ultimate Linux user's and sysadmin's guide! http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxckbk/ this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
