[talk] In Contrast to BSD init, A history of modern init systems (1992-2015)

[Sujit K M]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is not an init system, as I said in the first email you responded to,
> however multiple init systems have drawn inspiration directly from it such
> as runit and s6.  It is also covered in the initial link that kicked off
> this discussion due to its influence.
>
Quote You Below in your most recent Mail

"If you take a few minutes to read the website you'll notice that is imaging
 software, not an init system"
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> It would be appreciated if you read the content being discussed, and your
> own links, better, especially when you take on an aggressive and
> authoritative tone.

Any opensource development will have a aggressive look at a open place.
If you please search google for "daemon tools" it gets
"http://www.daemon-tools.cc"
If you want people to look at every bit of information before asking questions,
you won't find it here.

>
> Thanks.
>
> Den 19 sep 2015 09:45 skrev "Sujit K M" <kmsujit at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > If you take a few minutes to read the website you'll notice that is
>> > imaging
>> > software, not an init system. The website you want is:
>> >
>> > http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
>>
>> So how is this a init system. It is only a way to Manage UNIX
>> Services. Quote from the home page.
>>
>> "What is it?
>>
>> daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services.
>>
>> supervise monitors a service. It starts the service and restarts the
>> service if it dies. Setting up a new service is easy: all supervise
>> needs is a directory with a run script that runs the service.
>>
>> multilog saves error messages to one or more logs. It optionally
>> timestamps each line and, for each log, includes or excludes lines
>> matching specified patterns. It automatically rotates logs to limit
>> the amount of disk space used. If the disk fills up, it pauses and
>> tries again, without losing any data."
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> >
>> > Den 19 sep 2015 09:31 skrev "Sujit K M" <kmsujit at gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.daemon-tools.cc/support/faq#free_or_not
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Sujit K M <kmsujit at gmail.com> writes:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Please stop promoting proprietary solutions to the list.
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > daemontools is open source and has been modified/extended in multiple
>> >> > ways (daemontools-encore, runit).  I'm not sure how I am promoting a
>> >> > proprietary solution, please enlighten me?
>> >>
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