ANN: Closing AC

[Jakub Piotr Cłapa]

Tomasz Pala wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:52:36 -0500, Andrew A. Gill wrote:
> 
>> That's a very ugly solution.  I haven't been following this 
>> init.d discussion too closely, but what you're proposing is 
>> ugly.
> 
> Daemons shouldn't die and they don't without any reason. I've got only
> one broken - ospf, if you have more you should revise system
> configuration and hardware.
> Generally speaking there's no common need for watching over services,
> thus I don't see much interest in switching startup scripts.

NMB dies when it runs out of network interfaces. That's stupid but is 
considered a feature by samba developers...

Supervising daemons could allow creating an easy GUI control panel for 
them, informing the admin about problems.

The startup time with init-ng is proved to be less than a half compared 
to plain SysVinit.

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Regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa