Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:53:00 -0800 From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Importing djb's public domain daemontools? Message-ID: <CAETOPp2Wcww1_fPonru0c6XoX%2BAV_HWoGZKiEMvmY50a5%2ByxRQ@mail.gmail.com>
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http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html says: "What are the distribution terms for daemontools? 2007.12.28: I hereby place the daemontools package (in particular, daemontools-0.76.tar.gz, with MD5 checksum 1871af2453d6e464034968a0fbcb2bfc) into the public domain. The package is no longer copyrighted." FreeBSD could use a lightweight, robust service management framework so we can finally get rid of the messy and unreliable pidfile concept. UNIX already provides a much more elegant solution using fork()/exec()/wait() in combination with the process table. daemontools provides a solid, time-tested implementation of said mechanism. There's also an updated version of daemontools by Bruce Guenter at http://untroubled.org/daemontools-encore/ which among other improvements has support for finish script functionality, which is very useful for alerting/monitoring of service crashes. Its LICENSE file suggests that it is released under a BSD-like license. Thoughts? -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
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