Misleading. supervise can control any process with does not daemonize
itself or put itself in the background. Here are the contents of my
/var/qmail/rc script which specifically uses supervise. Other examples
can be found as well.
======= start of /var/qmail/rc ============
#! /bin/sh
# Using cyclog to log the messages
# Using dot-forward to support sendmail-style ~/.forward files.
# Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Maildir/ by default.
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
/usr/local/bin/supervise /var/run/qmail qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward
./Maildir/' /usr/local/bin/accustamp | \
/usr/local/bin/setuser qmaill \
/usr/local/bin/cyclog -s10000000 -n200 /var/adm/qmail
======= end of /var/qmail/rc ==============
Note: you will NOT find qmail-start in your process list after it
completes. qmail start launches 3 other daemons and then replaces itself
with the qmail-send process. It is the qmail-send process NOT qmail-start
itself that you need to supervise and control.
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Petr Novotny wrote:
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> > >Would there be any reason not to use supervise for qmail-start?
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> > I can't think of a good reason not to.
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> Um, like, qmail-start only spawns a few daemons and then goes
> away, doesn't it? Definitely I can't see it running around my
> machine. Therefore you can't supervise it - supervise works on
> daemons, not on daemon-spawners.
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