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Re: launchd port: Worth it?



On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:40:10PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> [...]
> I like Aaron's idea of a kind of "launchd-lite" that would react to
> changing state.  Such a daemon would require no changes to the launched
> processes.  One feature I rather like is services that start/stop based
> on the presence of the configuration file.  That solves the DRY problem
> of setting up a configuration file *and* modifying rc.conf to turn it
> on. 

that's something I don't want. I have several daemons with a config
file setup, but which I only start on demand with /etc/rc.d/foo onestart.
I don't want theses to automagically start just because there is a config
file.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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