From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1977 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charlie Brady Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: Configuration services Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:45:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20090726162204.GA19230@pretender.frop.net> <20090726170735.GA13244@skarnet.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248633972 20142 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2009 18:46:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:46:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org To: Laurent Bercot Original-X-From: supervision-return-2212-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Sun Jul 26 20:46:05 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MV8jS-0002fC-6b for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:46:02 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 13814 invoked by uid 76); 26 Jul 2009 18:47:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 13799 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2009 18:47:18 -0000 X-X-Sender: charlieb@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com In-Reply-To: <20090726170735.GA13244@skarnet.org> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1977 Archived-At: 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.