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His software creates new top-level directories off root and this simply hasn't found wide acceptance among sysadmins. I've never seen eg daemontools used in the
by cgh 11y ago
His software creates new top-level directories off root and this simply hasn't found wide acceptance among sysadmins. I've never seen eg daemontools used in the wild for this reason.
- copperlight 11y agoNetflix uses daemontools in their BaseAMI[1] for starting up core services such as Apache and Tomcat. I think this choice was originally made to ensure consistency in process startup methods across CentOS and Ubuntu. Support for automatically creating daemontools scripts is baked into nebula-ospackage-plugin[2]. [1] http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/03/ami-creation-with-aminator.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/03/ami-creation-with-aminat... [2] https://github.com/nebula-plugins/nebula-ospackage-plugin https://github.com/nebula-plugins/nebula-ospackage-plugin
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoYelp uses s6. At least, I'm deducing that from employees being regulars on the supervision mailing list.
- derefr 11y agoIt occurs to me that the configuration-time and maintenance-time "weirdness" of djb's software is a lot less of a big deal if you stick it in a Docker container. I've seen daemontools being used as a container-internal PID1 a number of times.