The Verdict

[Randall Randall]

On Wednesday 13 March 2002 13:49, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> 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.

Ah.  I believe that basically any daemon Bernstein (sp?) writes 
requires daemontools.  He apparently believes that there are
shortcomings in the normal init process, though I haven't seen 
him spell out the problems he sees.

> 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.

Note that doing this would deprive you of the centralized status-getting and
start and stop process that daemontools provides (if I understand "respawn"
correctly).  It certainly would be simpler, however, especially since you 
have to edit your inittab either way.

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