On 9/29/06, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:07:48 +0200, Carlo Calica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Daemon monitoring has some really nice benefits.  But it really is
> > swimming upstream against the flow of sysvinit. :-)  Many daemons just
> > aren't designed to allow it, especially for some advanced features
> > (sending signals, logging).  This means Tasks are required.  Having
> > two solutions (Tasks and Daemons) leads to confusion.  Since Tasks are
> > conceptually simpiler they seem to be winning.
> >
> I guess this means that Daemons are obsolete?
>

I don't know.
> >
> > Right now our bootscripts are very 80s BSD.  I'd love to see it
> > modernized.  Moving to the common init.d/rc#.d isn't a real
> > improvement.  Upstart is very interesting.  The "need" based
> > dependency inits seem to be an improvement but really aren't (see my
> > aBootScripts from years past).  I'm also concerned about distracting
> > from the 013 release.
> >
> I think that if we don't have a feature freeze on 013 by now, we really
> should set one. Isn't it stable enough to get a RC out soon?
> I think our prime consern is to get a stable 013 out and when that is out
> we could start looking at more features. I have some ideas on what I'd
> like on 014... :)
>
I would say its good enough for installed systems but the LiveCD
experience needs some more work.

> > WRT Daemon monitor daemon.  I believe, the Daemon shell function
> > implements a simple one in sh for each daemon being monitored.
> >
> Afaik we don't ship with any monitoring daemon.
>

Look at /P/BootScripts/Current/Functions/BootScripts.  There's a
commented out impl that supports daemon restart.   Installing runit
should provide a better Daemon.

-- 
Carlo J. Calica
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