Re: [Monotone-devel] Debian package enhancements

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

Tomas Fasth wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith skrev:
> 
> 
>>>Another thing to consider is that the monotone server is currently a
>>>little more prone to exiting on error than most servers; it doesn't
>>>cause much of a problem in practice, but it's probably a good idea to
>>>run it under some sort of process supervisor, like runit.  (This is
>>>probably a good idea anyway, because runit is awesome, of course ;-))
> 
> 
> You're right, Nathaniel, runit _is_ awesome. What do you think
> Matthew, about using runit as part of what you try to achieve?
> 

The standard on debian is to use start-stop-daemon.  The problem with that is if
I use start-stop-daemon I don't think I can re-direct monotone's output to a
file and background it at the same time.  If I use the shell to backgroud it (as
the current patch does) then I don't get the monitoring support that
start-stop-daemon provides.

If monotone had some kind of --log=/var/log/file option to output to instead of
stdout when running in server mode then I could use start-stop-daemon fine.



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