Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 10:25:04AM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: > Yes, all problems are just nails for that hammer! Whilst there is some concern about it growing its remit to other, unrelated tasks, daemon management is exactly what it is for. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:39:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >It looks like you maintain daemon, in fact. :) For appropriate values of "maintain", yes. Which is why I asked for the difference between daemonize and daemon(1). Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy co

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 19:18:50 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >> On Jul 09, Martín Ferrari wrote: >>> I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you >>> need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which >>> is something

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Michael Lustfield
>> Of course, we shouldn't expect everyone to use systemd-run because >> that's locking into an init system which should quite obviously be >> avoided. > > That, again. > > The person who suggested using systemd merely pointed out that the task > of turning a regular process into daemon is triviall

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:10:35 -0500 Michael Lustfield wrote: [...] > Of course, we shouldn't expect everyone to use systemd-run because > that's locking into an init system which should quite obviously be > avoided. That, again. The person who suggested using systemd merely pointed out that the t

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 19:18:50 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On Jul 09, Martín Ferrari wrote: >> I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you >> need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which >> is something I needed only last week. Hav

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Michael Lustfield
>>> > I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you >>> > need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which >>> > is something I needed only last week. Having said that, I think that >>> This looks like a job for systemd. >>> >> >> Yes, all problems ar

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2015-07-09 19:25 GMT+02:00 Clint Byrum : > Excerpts from md's message of 2015-07-09 10:18:50 -0700: >> On Jul 09, Martín Ferrari wrote: >> >> > I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you >> > need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which >> > i

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from md's message of 2015-07-09 10:18:50 -0700: > On Jul 09, Martín Ferrari wrote: > > > I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you > > need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which > > is something I needed only last week. Having sai

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 09, Martín Ferrari wrote: > I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you > need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which > is something I needed only last week. Having said that, I think that This looks like a job for systemd. -- ciao,

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 09/07/15 02:19, Guillem Jover wrote: >> Most programs that are designed to be run as daemons do that work for >> themselves. However, you’ll occasionally run across one that does not. When >> you must run a daemon program that does not properly make itself into a true >> Unix daemon, you ca

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 16:45:12 -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: >* Package name: daemonize > Version : 1.7.6 > Upstream Author : Brian Clapper, b...@clapper.org >* URL : http://software.clapper.org/daemonize/ >* License : BSD > Programming Lang: C > Description : too

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 16:45:12 -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Sandro Tosi > > * Package name: daemonize > Version : 1.7.6 > Upstream Author : Brian Clapper, b...@clapper.org > * URL : http://software.clapper.org/daemonize/

Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-08 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sandro Tosi * Package name: daemonize Version : 1.7.6 Upstream Author : Brian Clapper, b...@clapper.org * URL : http://software.clapper.org/daemonize/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : tool to run