Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in
Marc Haber wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am maintainer for run and console-log, and waiting for NM to
> complete. Unfortunately, run has a nasty bug that causes console-log
> to hang which in turn may prevent a clean shutdown. Upstream doesn't
> maintain run any more (and I shouldn't have packaged it in the first
> place), and isn't interested in fixing that bug. I don't have the
> expertise to fix this one as it is buried deep inside interprocess
> communication and vanishes under the debugger and when debugging
> outputs are included, and asking for help on debian-devel multiple
> times didn't show a helper.
>
> I am now seriously thinking of having run pulled from the project
> since its quality surely isn't up to Debian's standards.
>
> To keep console-log, I need a program that can daemonize a "normal"
> program, i.e. put it in the background, maintain a pid file unter
> /var/run and optionally restart the program when it dies. Is something
> that can do this in Debian at the moment, or is there maybe somebody
> who can help in debugging run?
what about that start-stop-daemon or something like that used to start
and stop daemons and various services, check the /etc/init.d scripts
what/how they use, I do not have debian handy at the moment but I think
it might do what you want.
erik
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