On Thursday 16 October 2003 03:17, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:32:28AM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > > Is it the job of the package maintainer of a daemon (for example > > OpenSSH) to adapt whatever initialization the upstream developer > > creates (BSD in this case I imagine) to the Debian style of System V > > init? > > Yes. The OpenSSH package maintainers (of which I'm one) do exactly this.
I am the upstream developer of a daemon. The Debian init interface seems well designed. I was able to integrate my daemon with the Debian init smoothly. The start-stop-daemon and update-rc.d tools are very handy. Especially when compared to the RedHat distro init methods. As I integrate my daemon into RH I wish I had start-stop-daemon and update-rc.d. I don't think taking update-rc.d to RH will pay a dividend since it's used once. OTOH. taking start-stop-daemon to RH might pay off. Should I do this, or has it been done? The first 100 hits on googling on "start-stop-daemon redhat" don't suggest that porting start-stop-daemon to RH has been done. -- Mike Mueller 324881 (08/20/2003) Make clockwise circles with your right foot. Now use your right hand to draw the number "6" in the air. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
