Please forgive me if this question is a FAQ somewhere or has already been discussed (I tried google, though). If this is the wrong list for this question, I also apologize for that.
I've recently moved all of my machines to runit, and I've been immensely pleased with the results. In particular, the process supervision, clean process state, uniform and well-organized logging, elimination of pidfiles, and general simplicity of the whole system has been wonderful. I've also found that in creating my own debian packages for local use, I've found that the /var/service mechanism lets me avoid the need for postinst/prerm scripts in many, many situations. Really, the only trouble has been reliably disabling the /etc/init.d-based launching that comes with packages that I apt-get (but I think I've got that figured out now) and making sure they don't get double-started when I upgrade a package (due to an /etc/init.d/foo [re]start in the package's postinst). So, my main question: has there been any consideration given to moving official debian policy from /etc/init.d and start-stop-daemon to a supervision-based system like runit or daemontools? I understand that there are several solutions in this category (another is daemontools, but I believe that its licensing situation is not acceptable for debian). This question is not specific to runit -- more of a general inquiry about the type of solution it is representative of. - a -- PGP/GPG: 5C9F F366 C9CF 2145 E770 B1B8 EFB1 462D A146 C380 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
