On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:31:07AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > The "sysutils/daemontools" port has a few options for the port. The > three I have a question about are listed below along with their default > settings: > > > S_EARLY "Start early, before the normal daemons" off > S_NORMAL "Start normally in the usual boot sequence" on > SIGQ12 "Add svc support for QUIT, USR1, and USR2 signals" off > > I was wondering if there is any strategic advantage to using the > "S_EARLY" option as opposed to the default setting.
Imagine your DNS server is running as a service. You want it to start before most of the network services have a chance to try using it :) > Also, if I have a program(s) that are routinely restarted via "USR1", > such as clamav, should I activate the "SIGQ12" option? I am not even > sure exactly what support it enables. It adds the -1, -2, and -q options to the svc(8) command-line tool, and yes, that's pretty much exactly what you want - if you're running clamav as a service, you can now do "svc -1 /var/service/clamav" and it'll get a USR1 signal. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@space.bg r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If I had finished this sentence,
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