Re: launchd

2011-08-08 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi Pedro, "Pedro F. Giffuni" writes: > Apple does support most (maybe all) the traditional > daemons like httpd and ftpd. The difference is that these > daemons must be run *under* launchd and not on their own. > Check the launchctl(1) man page. I understood that this is

Re: launchd

2011-08-08 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi Pedro, "Pedro F. Giffuni" writes: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd > > The code on github is somewhat outdated and may need some Thanks for the pointer! I took a quick look, HOWTO.html says: "Now if you've ever written a daemon before, you've either

Re: launchd (was notes from the kfreebsd BoF)

2011-07-31 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi Robert; --- On Sun, 7/31/11, Robert Millan wrote: ... > > Do you know how does launchd compare to InitNG?  I'm > not familiar with either. > I hadn't seen InitNG so I can't compare. The license would be an issue for upstream FreeBSD though (assuming you want s

Re: launchd (was notes from the kfreebsd BoF)

2011-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
2011/7/31 Pedro F. Giffuni : > Hello; > > Just passing by, I found very interesting the notes from > the BoF. Since it seems you will be working on a systemd > replacement for other systems, perhaps you will find it > easier to start from launchd, which is free and was >

launchd (was notes from the kfreebsd BoF)

2011-07-30 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hello; Just passing by, I found very interesting the notes from the BoF. Since it seems you will be working on a systemd replacement for other systems, perhaps you will find it easier to start from launchd, which is free and was ported to FreeBSD on Google Summer Code. http://wiki.freebsd.org