cathexis

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   by cathexis 10y ago

   By all accounts, LispM's were awesome systems to use but lost out due to heavy marketing from unix vendor companies.
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   by cathexis 11y ago

   Pretty much. If I want to save a file: wget. If I want to do _anything_ else: curl. Yes you can write files with curl, no I don't use that functionality very often. I don't think of them as "end user" vs "developer&
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   by cathexis 11y ago

   I'm always amused by people who do the opposite: using wget to send get/post requests to web servers and having to add `-O /dev/null' (or, even worse `-O - > /dev/null'to keep from saving the resul
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   by cathexis 11y ago

   They Live: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live
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   by cathexis 11y ago

   Essentially it's an alternative method for starting long running services (and restarting them if they fail). The things all daemontools-inspired process supervisors do: Runs a scanner gainst a service directory containing a directory
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   by cathexis 11y ago

   I missed actually answering the question about the difference between the two (plus, that comment is in dire need of editing and the edit window appears to have expired). The superficial differences are things like: service to logger pipe h
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   by cathexis 11y ago

   I've used s6 a lot, though not as an init replacement in any systems that matter. As a supervisor I think it's great. For basic stuff (root process supervising supervisors supervising daemons) the two are basically identical with