to supervise or not to supervise

2001-02-06 Thread Peter Brezny
our new qmail install is started simply by exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir splogger qmail& however I've noticed a lot of people using daemontools and supervise. What are the primary advantages of using supervise? Our mail server probably handles less than 2000 me

Re: to supervise or not to supervise

2001-02-06 Thread Kris Kelley
> What are the primary advantages of using supervise? If qmail (or any supervised process) abnormally dies, supervise will automatically start it back up. > Our mail server probably handles less than 2000 messges a day is it > something I really need to do? Can't hurt. > Is there a good docume

Re: to supervise or not to supervise

2001-02-06 Thread Greg White
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:16:36PM -0500, Peter Brezny wrote: > our new qmail install is started simply by > > exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ > qmail-start ./Maildir splogger qmail& > > however I've noticed a lot of people using daemontools and supervise. > > What are the primary adva

Re: to supervise or not to supervise

2001-02-06 Thread Paul Jarc
"Peter Brezny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What are the primary advantages of using supervise? Among those already mentioned: reliability. You *can't* reliably manage a service without cooperation from the parent process or the process itself. Putting the management functionality into the pro

Re: to supervise or not to supervise

2001-02-07 Thread Rahsheen Porter
Greg White wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:16:36PM -0500, Peter Brezny wrote: > > our new qmail install is started simply by > > > > exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ > > qmail-start ./Maildir splogger qmail& > > > > however I've noticed a lot of people using daemontools and supervis

Re: to supervise or not to supervise

2001-02-07 Thread Antonio Dias
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Rahsheen Porter wrote: > I'm pretty positive the latest ver of OpenSSH does this. There was > something > on the list recently about it. I think I'm using a patch provided during > that thread though. (OpenSSH_2.3.0p1) This off-topic here but you can get a patch here: http:/