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From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>
To: Laurent Bercot <ska-supervision@skarnet.org>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: Configuration services
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:45:55 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0907261444300.18966@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090726170735.GA13244@skarnet.org>


On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Laurent Bercot wrote:

> If you just want to set up some stuff *once*, and run no daemon, the
> service model doesn't apply; write a script that does what you want and
> just call it when needed (for instance at one-time system initialization),
> don't try to keep it supervised.

Keeping it supervised does have the advantage of giving a guaranteed 
consistent environment. However you could provide the same guarantee other 
ways.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-26 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-26 16:22 David Miller
2009-07-26 17:07 ` Laurent Bercot
2009-07-26 18:45   ` Charlie Brady [this message]
2009-07-26 21:10     ` David Miller
2009-07-27  8:56 ` Thomas Schwinge
2009-07-28  2:08   ` David Miller
2009-07-28  5:52     ` Laurent Bercot
2009-07-28 16:01       ` David Miller

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