On Mar 12, 2007, at 1:26 AM, Brian Sutherland wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:22:58PM -0500, Chad Whitacre wrote: >> Jim, >> >> First, your comments re: paying attention to sysadmins are >> well-taken. Thanks. > > I was pointed to this conversation and would like to comment > wearing my > sysadmin hat about what I would like. How I think web applications > should be installed on unix. Basically, I'll just go through what > happens when I install apache, squid or postgres on linux. > > When I install an application that is a daemon,
There is an interesting subtlety here. I think of Zope (or applications built using Zope components) as applications that can be run as one or more daemons. To me, a daemon is a particular instance of an application, not the application itself. I (and my SAs) prefer to separate software installation from configuration. We prefer that these be 2 steps. We often run multiple daemons of the same application on a single machine. The configuration of these daemons (and cron jobs, and so on) are controlled from a central configuration database that is mostly independent of the software install. We don't want deamons installed automatically when an application is installed. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list [email protected] Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
