Re: Daemontools under Solaris 10?

Daniel Clark wrote:
>
>On 9/5/06, Eben <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Daniel Clark wrote:
>> >
>> >Does anyone have daemontools-0.76 working under Solaris 10?
>> >
>> >The default install doesn't seem to work with Solaris 10's init ;
>> >running "kill -HUP 1" doesn't seem to do anything, and on a reboot I
>> >get this on the console:
>> >
>> >INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
>> >id:  SV "/comand/svscanboot"
>>
>> I successfully use the following in inittab with Solaris 9;
>> SV:123456:respawn:/command/svscanboot </dev/null
>
>Yeah, just after posting this I stumbled onto the correct search terms
>in Google and found [1,2] which go in to more detail.
>
>It looks like this has been a problem since 2001, so I'm a bit
>confused as to why there hasn't been a 0.77 release or something (it
>would also be nice to have the AIX 5.3 patch included).

It is confusing, but that's a question for the developer.
He's a professor, so he may not have time to devote to it.

>
>Until that happens I find encap [3] is a good way to deal with DJB's
>distribution policies. An encap profile with the patches I use is here
>[4].
>
>I need to go test to make sure that the "</dev/null" syntax doesn't
>break non-Solaris platforms now...
>
>[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=log&m=101288082112083&w=2
>[2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=log&m=100283791310289&w=2
>[3] http://www.encap.org
>[4] daemontools .ep - http://tinyurl.com/f4rmn

There are several previous threads devoted to development and distribution
motives.