Hi

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Martijn Dekkers
<devuan-list1@???> wrote:
> Have a look at this excellent comparison for supervisor / init tools:
>
> http://skarnet.org/software/s6/why.html
>
> S6 is the bees' knees
>

IMHO s6/daemontools and similar tools are just a helpers.
They help to run as a unix daemon a program which is not written to be
a unix daemon.
Now they pretend to the role of init, which they are not.
And should not be.
The program should be modified to be able to switch to background
itself. But tell this to the java programmer...

S6 even forces such a program must not handle daemon mode itself.
    That process must not "background itself": being run by a
supervision tree already makes it a "background" task.

Regards
piotr


> On 28 March 2015 at 01:32, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm managing more and more of my daemons with daemontools. This is
>> currently happening on my sysvinit-initted Wheezy, but I think I'll do
>> it forever. By the way, anything good I say about daemontools goes
>> even more so for Bruce Gunter's daemontools-encore.
>>
>> I could have managed my daemons with sysvinit, using the respawn, and a
>> lot of people ask me "what's the point of the extra software
>> (daemontools) when it's already doable from your init system?"
>>