I just uploaded the dt-run package to ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/run/ rsyncers can acces with rsync -vr moni.msci.memphis.edu::run There are also rpms in the directory. The dt-run package replaces my qmail-run and tcpserver-initscripts packages, and it is completely incompatible with them, since now the services will be running under svscan controlled supervises. In fact, the whole scheme is not set up under the control of the usual rc (rc? on Solaris) script that is the default "runlevel changer". >From the README of the package: ************************* This is alpha software, so be gentle with it! This package's main purpose is to give you tools to run services under svscan controlled supervises in a sysV like init environment. In particular, the package -- Sets up dt-svscan.init which starts/stops svscan and the supervises under svscan's control. -- Sets up dt-runlevel.init which manages all the runlevel changes for the services running under svscan. In fact, dt-svscan.init and dt-runlevel.init provide an environment that functions on its own. This means that once dt-svscan.init started svscan, just given the runlevel to change to, dt-runlevel.init decides which services to stop/start, and in which order. The order in which services are started/stopped are set up by the administrator using the runlevelconf package. Since setting up daemons to run under svscan requires to set up run scripts and links in svscan's service directory, the package provides run files for a large number of services (including all the qmail daemons), and two scripts, add-service.sh and remove-service.sh. [...] ************************************** You also find detailed installation/config instructions in the package and in the above ftp directory. There is also a MANUAL file which should get most people started. I'd like to receive feedback especially on the portability of the package. I have tested the package(s) on RH GNU/Linux, and I believe people on Linuxes should have no problems with installing from the tarball, and running the scripts. I'd be particularly grateful for advice on what to put in inittab on various platforms---I have no root access for anything else but RH Linux. Finally: could one of the Debian users advice me what kind of copyright notice I am supposed to distribute with the package, since it optionally installs update-inetd? Also, are these nice green [OK] and red [FAILED] indicators that show up when one starts/stop services, RH specific, or they also appear in Debian? Mate --- Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
