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From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: Scott Colby <scott@scolby.com>
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Subject: Re: Supervision on the BSD's
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:57:17 +1000
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"Scott Colby" <scott@scolby.com> writes:

> I started looking at how to configure daemons/services on 
> OpenBSD
> and FreeBSD and am a little surprised at what I found. As far as 
> I
> can tell, OpenBSD's rc assumes that services will background
> themselves and does no supervision at all. It seems like 
> FreeBSD's
> daemon(8) has some supervision capabilities with the -r flag, 
> but
> it is unclear to me how widely used that is.
>
> Given the apparently poor state of supervision, I'm considering
> using s6 when I configure this system.

i run two OpenBSD servers, one of which i'd be happy to do some 
s6-related tinkering on, so i'm following this discussion with 
interest. :-)


Alexis.