[gobolinux-devel] Daemons/Tasks on startup

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:07:48 +0200, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com> 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?

>
> 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... :)

> 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.

/Jonas
>
> On 9/28/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
>> I'm updating the recipe for Bind and I thinking on how to start named.
>> Should it be a task or a daemon. Do we still use daemons?
>> And while on the subject, shouldn't we have a simple way to start
>> Tasks/Daemons at bootup, such as a list in BootOptions or a rc-dir with
>> symlinks?
>> Another note is that shouldn't it read "StartTask Udev" etc in the
>> bootscripts instead of "Udev Start" as it says now?
>>
>> A third note on start up. The discussion has been up before, but nothing
>> was decided (afaik), shouldn't we have a monitoring daemon for managing
>> daemons/tasks?
>>
>> --
>> /Jonas
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