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From: "Ramarro Marrone" <rm@allmail.net>
To: "Scott Colby" <scott@scolby.com>,
	"Alex Efros via supervision" <supervision@list.skarnet.org>
Subject: Re: Supervision on the BSD's
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 11:36:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee8d124d-cf6f-4e7b-89c6-3d66889d094c@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0c1d24f1-fa0e-4c00-a94f-3173110b3800@www.fastmail.com>

I too had been surprised by the lack of supervision in OpenBSD.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2022, at 05:38, Scott Colby wrote:
> As far as I
> can tell, OpenBSD's rc assumes that services will background
> themselves and does no supervision at all.
> ...
> Have I correctly understood how daemons/services work on the BSD's?

About OpenBSD, almost: You can set rc_bg if the daemon doesn't
background itself. See rc.subr(8).

> If not, what am I missing?

/etc/daily runs "rcctl ls failed", so you get an email of the failed daemons.
This is not supervision, but it is close enough for me.
Maybe I prefer it actually.

> Are the daemons included with the
> distributions so incredibly stable that they don't need supervision
> in order to keep the system functional?

Yes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-09 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-09  5:38 Scott Colby
2022-04-09  7:57 ` Alexis
2022-04-09 11:36 ` Ramarro Marrone [this message]
2022-04-10 18:56   ` Oliver Schad
2022-04-09 13:43 ` Laurent Bercot
2022-04-11 17:18 ` J. Lewis Muir

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