Re: [Zope-dev] Is there an alternative to zdaemon?

2006-12-23 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Dec 2006, at 14:53, Jim Fulton wrote: > I don't think it ever caused anyone any headache apart from maybe working around different ways in which forking/daemonizing is handled on some platforms (OS X comes to mind). Any software we own is

Re: [Zope-dev] Is there an alternative to zdaemon?

2006-12-23 Thread Jim Fulton
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: ... So with all that said, what's the use case for switching zdaemon out for something else? Not owning it. :) > What other functionalities are *you* looking for? Ditto. > I don't think it ever caused anyone any headache apart from maybe working around different ways in

Re: [Zope-dev] Is there an alternative to zdaemon?

2006-12-23 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Dec 2006, at 14:23, Jim Fulton wrote: zdaemon is an interesting case because it is s non-zope and (mostly) non-python specific. I must say that it amazes me that there isn't an established alternative out there. When people start ta

Re: [Zope-dev] Is there an alternative to zdaemon?

2006-12-23 Thread Jim Fulton
Andreas Jung wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On 22. Dezember 2006 15:55:48 -0500 Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It has 2 major disadvantages: - It is ours. :) We are bearing the burden of maintaining it. This is offset by the fact that it hasn't required m

Re: [Zope-dev] Is there an alternative to zdaemon?

2006-12-22 Thread Andreas Jung
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On 22. Dezember 2006 15:55:48 -0500 Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It has 2 major disadvantages: > > - It is ours. :) We are bearing the burden of maintaining it. >This is offset by the fact that it hasn't required much maintenanc

[Zope-dev] Is there an alternative to zdaemon?

2006-12-22 Thread Jim Fulton
Yesterday I started working on some updates to zdaemon. zdaemon is pretty cool. It is a Unix-only tool that: - Turns an arbitrary program into a fairly well-behaved daemon - Provides management of an applications output as a log file. - Provides start, stop and restart commands for starting o