On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Marc Schöchlin <m...@256bit.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > i wrote the the recent sysv init script :-) > > Great! Is there a link to this? Where is it? I have my own project that makes ActiveMQ into a more proper Debian package. I was thinking of trying to merge it into ActiveMQ and was researching this. > I personally dislike the java service wrapper because: > - this prevents the addition of intelligence to the start/stop mechanisms > in some ways > - this prevents execution on unix platforms which are not supported by the > service wrapper > (debian s390, arm, solaris, AIX, ....) > - this creates additional dependencies > > Just use the initscript provided by activemq. What is the reason/benefit > to use start-stop-daemon? > > Which one? The basic bin/activemq? start-stop-daemon is the official debian way. I’m not an expert on it but it seem pretty straight forward and provides more debian handlers to the daemon process. > Probably we can add some logic to the init script function > invokeJar-Function > ( > https://github.com/apache/activemq/blob/master/assembly/src/release/bin/activemq > ) > > There’s also the migration to systemd which is inevitable and a gun pointed at everyone’s head.. Would there be any interest in me contributing an activemq-debian submodule that takes the tar.gz and turns it in to a .deb? I can just take my code and make it into a pull request and the community can work with it moving forward to hopefully provide support for ubuntu/debian but also/eventually systemd Kevin -- Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: *San Francisco, CA* blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com … or check out my Google+ profile <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> <http://spinn3r.com>
