erik(a)totalcirculation.com ("Erik LaBianca") writes:
> Another possibility is to use daemontools...
Indeed, they are very usefully. But unfortunately, they are
not free software (like all the other djb stuff) and can not
be distributed therefore.
Are you sure daemontools isn't public domain?
This is all I see:
[erik@mises BUILD]$ head -1 daemontools/src/alloc.c
/* Public domain. */
I've heard tell that djb doesn't like binary redistribution of patched
binaries, but I don't see anything about it in the current daemontools
distro. He also has a treatise[1] about how he declaring code to be in
the public domain effectively relinquishes copyright. He does have a
redistribution page indidicating he doesn't want anyone to ship versions
of his software installed in a "non-standard" location, however [2].
Anyway, it looks like there may be some other replacements that might be
suitable alternative. It sure would be nice to have a simpler (read not
sysvinit) way to add "services" to a fedora system included with the
distro.
1.
http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html
2.
http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
--erik