On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > But an init that takes a bit more > care to its offspring, making sure they stay alive until such time as > they are needed to die (yuck again!) is a vast improvement over 'start > it and forget it.' So your solution to the problems that happen in complex daemon software is to use even more complex software as a manager for all of them??? Remind me why (a) you think that will be perfect, and (b) why you think an unpredictable daemon should be resurrected to continue its unpredictable behavior. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com