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Indeed, this would be great :)

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From: "Ask Bj?rn Hansen" <ask@develooper.com>
To: <varnish-misc at projects.linpro.no>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:14 AM
Subject: don't daemonize option


>
> I usually run services like varnishd under daemontools/supervise. I
> realize that varnish already have an option for running a supervisor
> process, but all the same I'd like to have an option to not daemonize so
> I can run varnishd "my way". :-)
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In message <D4F0C23D-A50A-49D0-A169-593C53D2FFD3 at develooper.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?
Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?= writes:
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>I usually run services like varnishd under daemontools/supervise. I
>realize that varnish already have an option for running a supervisor
>process, but all the same I'd like to have an option to not daemonize
>so I can run varnishd "my way". :-)

Well, -d (or -d -d) already does that, but we may make a more
dedicated version also, it has been talked about.

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Ask Bj?rn Hansen <ask at develooper.com> writes:
> I usually run services like varnishd under daemontools/supervise. I
> realize that varnish already have an option for running a supervisor
> process, but all the same I'd like to have an option to not daemonize
> so I can run varnishd "my way". :-)

The supervisor process is not optional. It does more than just
supervise, it also handles the management interface, VCL compilation
etc.

DES
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On May 7, 2007, at 11:42 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> I usually run services like varnishd under daemontools/supervise. I
>> realize that varnish already have an option for running a supervisor
>> process, but all the same I'd like to have an option to not daemonize
>> so I can run varnishd "my way". :-)
>
> Well, -d (or -d -d) already does that,

I noticed, but I expected that to bring some debug overhead ...

> but we may make a more dedicated version also, it has been talked
> about.

Excellent - thanks. :-)


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