Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-04 Thread Warren Turkal
On Sunday 03 June 2007 15:11:36 Vincent Danjean wrote: > To be run by a user, you can look at launchtool (in the package with > the same name). > Description: Runs a command supervising its execution >   Runs a user-supplied command supervising its execution in >   many ways: > [...] This looks li

Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-04 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 10:56:37PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > On Saturday 02 June 2007 21:45, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Take a look at runit. ?It's quite a bit like daemontools without the weird > > licensing. > > Runit doesn't appear to be useful for non-system tasks, like starting jackd > and

Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-03 Thread Vincent Danjean
Warren Turkal wrote: On Saturday 02 June 2007 21:45, Russ Allbery wrote: Take a look at runit. It's quite a bit like daemontools without the weird licensing. Runit doesn't appear to be useful for non-system tasks, like starting jackd and restarting it if it dies (i.e. on suspend/resume). T

Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 02 June 2007 23:03, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Could you say more about why not?  It looked to me like you could use >> its supervise equivalent without the whole init replacement stuff. > I took a closer look. It looked like the runit wanted to

Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-02 Thread Warren Turkal
On Saturday 02 June 2007 23:03, Russ Allbery wrote: > Could you say more about why not?  It looked to me like you could use its > supervise equivalent without the whole init replacement stuff. I took a closer look. It looked like the runit wanted to replace init entirely. I don't see how to separ

Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 02 June 2007 21:45, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Take a look at runit.  It's quite a bit like daemontools without the >> weird licensing. > Runit doesn't appear to be useful for non-system tasks, like starting > jackd and restarting it if it dies

Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-02 Thread Warren Turkal
On Saturday 02 June 2007 21:45, Russ Allbery wrote: > Take a look at runit.  It's quite a bit like daemontools without the weird > licensing. Runit doesn't appear to be useful for non-system tasks, like starting jackd and restarting it if it dies (i.e. on suspend/resume). wt -- Warren Turkal

Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anything like daemontools in main? I would like it to work with > user processes. I would like to use it to make sure a user process stays > running while I am logged in. Does anyone have any suggestions? Take a look at runit. It's quite a bit