On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:52:47 +0100 poitr pogo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cannot. Cannot what? > This is from the s6 docs. I'm not using s6. Just heard about > it today. I sure can't accuse you of procrastinating in forming an opinion. > Another s6 limitation - finish script must end in 3 > seconds. or will be killed. I'm pretty sure that 3 seconds is for each "daemon's" finish script, not for the whole of shutdown. What would be a better figure than 3 seconds? Have you ever had one of these computers that took a half hour to shut down? > Nice for desktop, not a server. Because??? > It used to be that an application is responsible for proper start > up/shutdown procedure, as application knows the proper way how to do > it. Yes. It's in the man page. > Init script is just a place where to hook a startup/shutdown > script to be executed when system needs to start/stop application in > some automatic way. > > Now there are tools which help deamonize things. > Depending how portable they are it make the price one has to pay when > decides to use them instead of handling this yourself in the > application. Daemontools, daemontools-encore, runit, and s6 "daemonize" any program that can run in the foreground. No need to mess around in the application. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
