rcorder for Linux

[Will H. Backman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Stephen R Laniel
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:44 PM
> To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
> Subject: rcorder for Linux
> 
> I've recently been playing with FreeBSD for work, and I
> notice that they use a nice system to determine daemon load
> order. Each daemon specifies what it needs (say, 'REQUIRE:
> networking' or 'PROVIDE: dns') in a specific syntax, and
> then the rcorder program goes through and figures out the
> proper load order: a daemon that REQUIREs networking, for
> instance, will load after one that PROVIDEs networking.
> 
> This seems to me a much smarter way to work than the
> (SysV-derived?) system that Debian uses, whereby daemons are
> loaded in alphanumeric order by their filenames.
> 
> I'm told that Debian -- or maybe Linux generally? -- will
> probably undergo some big changes in daemon loading within
> the next couple years. Can anyone provide any more detail on
> this?
> 

Take a look at Apple's launchd or the Solaris SMF.  There has been much
talk in the Linux world about moving to a similar system.

Launchd: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html
SMF: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9766/sam0506i/0506i.htm