The Verdict

[Jeremy Fowler]

Oh, I didn't say daemontools sucks, rather they have some very nice utilities in
there. I just though the fact that qmail needs it in order to run correctly is
kind of hokey and not very intuitive for the first-time installer. Qmail
dependency on daemontools sucks, not daemontools itself. Then again it is
possible to use the inittab respawn for qmail or any programs that need to be
restarted after they exit for that matter. Hylafax uses this for the faxgetty
process on incoming faxes. Works like a charm.

-Jeremy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Randall Randall
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:05 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Fwd: Re: The Verdict
>
>
> Accidentally sent to Jeremy, rather than the list.
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> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> Subject: Re: The Verdict
> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:04:22 -0400
> From: Randall Randall <wolfkin at freedomspace.net>
> To: "Jeremy Fowler" <jfowler at westrope.com>
>
>
> On Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:14, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> > Yes, you should try Postfix. I used Sendmail for about a year, switch to
> > qmail for awhile (didn't like it either), and now I run postfix and have
> > ever since. The config file is self-explanatory and it's easy to setup. As
> > far as qmail goes, I agree with you that it can be a pain. Plus you need to
> > download and install daemontools in order to set it up correctly. There is
> > a couple programs in daemontools that are used to start and stop the qmail
> > process. It monitors if the process quits and restarts it automatically.
> > Overall it's a pain. Live and learn.
>
> While I use postfix myself, I also use djbdns, which requires daemontools,
>  and it compiled and ran flawlessly on my systems.  Even if daemontools
>  sucked, it would be worth it to avoid bind and use djbdns.
>
> --
> Randall Randall <wolfkin at freedomspace.net>
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