Maybe I'm not understanding the question but isn't this exactly what the init processes (SysVinit, Upstart, Systemd) do? On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:29 AM, John Gateley <tclug at jfoo.org> wrote: > January 24, 2017 4:31 PM, "Iznogoud" <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > > Right, I anderstand. But we will disagree on two things and I prefer to > leave > > it at that: (a) using the filesystem, especially with a complex directory > > structure _and_ with non-intuitive operations like linking, unliking and > > rm-ing is far from elegant in my book, and (b) unix is all about > configuration > > files, which are not complicated if one studies documents and manual > pages. > > I have no idea how you decided we disagree about configuration files. My > question was about daemonizing applications, not about configuring them. > Your configuration files are a red herring. Please read my original > question. > > > Ansible, jailing processes, automation and virtualization have > requirements > > and some things can be made simpler with the (seamingly) complex (in my > book) > > operations. But I am of the idea that this sort of "requirement" should > not > > be feeding back to the structure of a really well functioning OS. I > could be > > dead wrong about this and I am an Ansible iliterate at best. Maybe that > is > > why I run Slackware. > > Ansible has nothing to do with Slackware, so your comment makes no sense. > > You seem to be saying "linux is a really well functioning OS, so we > shouldn't > make any changes to it." That is an interesting attitude. > > To recap: I asked about daemonizing applications, and got one useful > response > ("monit", which is more about monitoring daemons than daemonizing them, > though > it does have rudimentary capabilities for them), and a bunch of responses > from > you which were off topic and did not answer my question. > > I'm still researching this, and looking for opinions. At the moment > "runit" is > still in the lead, though if the debian package replaces init out of the > box, > I will probably choose something different. > > John > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170125/adee6d66/attachment.html>