I believe we had a thread about this a month ago or so and a few suggestions were brought up. I'll see if I can dig it out. One of the examples mentioned (by yours truly) was 'launchd' <div>On 11/15/05, Scott James Remnant <<a href="mailto:scott@ubuntu.com">scott@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 17:18 +0100, Martin Schmeisser wrote: > Scott James Remnant schrieb: > > >It has been rejected for dapper, which needs to be long-term > >supportable.  We'll look into alternatives for dapper+1. > > > initng has recently become pretty usable (im using it myself). I guess > it would need some love as it still seems to have problems with some > alsa cards and nvidias but IMHO it would make good in dapper+1 > *blink* and you entirely missed the point there <g> initng is limiting, it's just an alternate way of doing the same thing that we do now and is no better or worse than any other so-called "dependency init" system from what I can tell. I think that if we're going to replace SysVinit, we should shoot for something a lot whole better; maybe something that can replace init, cron, at, etc. in one swoop. Perhaps something that could solve the use cases:         I have an iPod and want my podcast script run every hour         while it's plugged in.         I want my backup-db script run whenever postgresql is         stopped.         I want apache run on my machine, and restarted whenever         it crashes. Scott -- Scott James Remnant <a href="mailto:scott@ubuntu.com">scott@ubuntu.com</a> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDeg0pSnQiFMl4yK4RAuKjAJ43JLzl+rkc+9NhOpjVVNTx3hZRbgCdFHZg hgCBK+j9vTmrg+n6UnQHi+E= =/qzu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- ---  The White Mink ---