Hello, This is to announce the release of GNU pies version 1.3.
GNU pies (pronounced ``p-yes'') is a program invocation and execution supervisor. It starts and controls execution of external programs, making it possible, in particular, to run in background programs that were not designed to be run as daemons. Pies configuration file allows administrator to specify arbitrary actions to be executed upon program termination (depending on its exit code or signal number it terminated by). It gives administrator complete control over the execution environment of each program. This includes modifying shell environment, running components with the given user privileges, etc. The standard error and/or standard output of any component may be redirected either to a disk file or to syslog. Starting with this release, GNU pies can also be used as init process daemon. See the end of this message for a list of noteworthy changes in this version. Here are the compressed sources: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pies/pies-1.3.tar.gz (1.5MB) http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pies/pies-1.3.tar.bz2 (1.1MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pies/pies-1.3.tar.gz.sig http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pies/pies-1.3.tar.bz2.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: ec4cad485e75fb2a6ddbc803839b0fe7 pies-1.3.tar.gz 40192b788f583a23eaaadac3b99cdb48 pies-1.3.tar.bz2 87c33ac1cee557267048dc21b587feb33dbd9004 pies-1.3.tar.gz 6881129a1fee59bf87db8f6d03cf79e74dc9f3d8 pies-1.3.tar.bz2 [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify pies-1.3.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 3602B07F55D0C732 and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.69 Automake 1.14 Makeinfo 5.2 Gnulib v0.1-634-g26989d0 NEWS * SysV-style Init GNU Pies can now be used as init process daemon - the first process started during booting. The configuration can be supplied both as a traditional /etc/inittab file or as a native GNU Pies configuration file. The control interface provides extensive monitoring and management capabilities. * Control interface The running GNU Pies instance can be queried and reconfigured on the fly via a TCP socket (either UNIX or INET). Special utility, piesctl, is included, which provides command line interface for inspecting the state of components, reloading configuration (including addition or removal of configuration files on the fly), stopping and restarting components, etc. * Changes in configuration Two new flags are provided: - siggroup This flag instructs pies to send termination signal to the process group of the process being stopped. - nullinput Do not close standard input. Redirect it from /dev/null instead. Use this option with commands that require their standard input to be open (e.g. pppd nodetach). ** String concatenation The adjacent string concatenation feature proved to create more problems than solutions (in particular, with the "env" statement) and was removed. Best regards, Sergey -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
