Re: packaging help

2012-05-03 Thread Whit Armstrong
ue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Whit Armstrong writes: > >>> I assume it has a main process, which when stopped, would result in the >>> workers being killed too. If that is so, I do not think you need to >>> store the pids of the workers anywhe

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
> I assume it has a main process, which when stopped, would result in the > workers being killed too. If that is so, I do not think you need to > store the pids of the workers anywhere. Perhaps I'm confusing terminology here. The main deamon does not spawn the workers. It and the workers are sta

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
:46 AM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Whit Armstrong > wrote: >> Thanks, Daniel. >> >> I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually >> made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally >> a

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
Thanks, Daniel. I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid. The idea is simply not to give users executing an R script on the machine root access. Regarding, reSIProcate, it's cdbs based? Wou

packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
First off, is this the right list to ask basic questions about packaging? I'm trying to package a small daemon that provdies a ZMQ remote execution facility for R. The code is here: https://github.com/armstrtw/deathstar.core I've read the package tutorials several times, but I'm having trouble f