Re: [mosquitto-dev] cnofig file theory, standard approach

[Kurt Van Dijck <dev.kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On ma, 01 jul 2019 09:58:20 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>    A proper init system, and today there exist several alternatives, do not
>    depend on the pid file.
> 
> Perfectly fair to point out that different styles of running systems
> need different defaults, but calling your preferred init system "proper"
> vs traditional approaches seems a bit much :-)

using a PID file to supervise a service _is_ a workaround, even if 99%
works like that.

> 
>   stderr is the only logging option that does not depend on other daemons,
>   so from mosquitto point of view, it a good default.
> 
> Windows aside, are there really significant (regular computer)
> environments where logging via syslog(3) doesn't work?  I would expect
> that to be the approach in 99% of cases.

true.

> 
>   Deamonizing should be controlled by the service supervisor, it should
>   not be the default from each and every program.
>   I appreciate the mosquitto's approach to this.
> 
> There are obviously multiple views out there.  I find that the vast
> majority of programs whose normal use is as a daemon daemonize by
> default.  This is not important; it's just a question of which systems
> have "do daemonize" vs "don't daemonize" in init scripts.