Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > The question is, can a few lines of shell code (as has been > demonstrated by the bugfix in the bug report above), manage the > problem sufficiently? If yes, then a full, separate program to handle > this stuff is _not_ KISS. I thought so but...

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 8 September 2011 19:35, Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana > wrote: >> I like the idea, this seems KISS as it is now. >> It could be a better way to manage services, kudos! > > It could also be incorporated into the rc.d functions, making it > eleg

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Clemens Fruhwirth
On 8 September 2011 14:03, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 8 September 2011 19:35, Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana > wrote: >> I like the idea, this seems KISS as it is now. >> It could be a better way to manage services, kudos! > > It could also be incorporated into the rc.d functions, making it > elegant t

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Mauro Santos
On 08-09-2011 12:58, Paul Ezvan wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:08:30 +0200, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote: >> If you use Debian, you might have come across start-stop-daemon. It's >> part of the dpkg package and encapsulates all the knowledge, they >> learnt when dealing with starting and stopping daemon

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Ray Rashif
On 8 September 2011 19:35, Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana wrote: > I like the idea, this seems KISS as it is now. > It could be a better way to manage services, kudos! It could also be incorporated into the rc.d functions, making it elegant to use from within the scripts. The question is, can a fe

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Paul Ezvan
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:08:30 +0200, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote: If you use Debian, you might have come across start-stop-daemon. It's part of the dpkg package and encapsulates all the knowledge, they learnt when dealing with starting and stopping daemons. Systemd may provide the same simplification

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana
I like the idea, this seems KISS as it is now. It could be a better way to manage services, kudos! -- Bl@ster / dottorblaster

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Martti Kühne
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Martti Kühne wrote: > curl-straming, which sometimes breaks so badly it's not enough to just > stop it, in which case it's not enough to just restart the daemon, wtf did I write here? ...curl streaming, which sometimes breaks so badly it's not enough to just stop i

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Martti Kühne
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote: > If you use Debian, you might have come across start-stop-daemon. It's > part of the dpkg package and encapsulates all the knowledge, they > learnt when dealing with starting and stopping daemons. It has plenty > of features ranging from:

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.09.2011 12:08, schrieb Clemens Fruhwirth: > If you use Debian, you might have come across start-stop-daemon. It's > part of the dpkg package and encapsulates all the knowledge, they > learnt when dealing with starting and stopping daemons. It has plenty > of features ranging from: > > * hand

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 08 Sep 2011 12:08:30 Clemens Fruhwirth wrote: > I propose to switch to start-stop-daemon and deprecate the method above. > > http://clemens.endorphin.org/sshd-start-stop-daemon.diff is an example > of an rc.d script ported to start-stop-daemon. The paradigm -- to my > personal taste --