RE: initscripts: Can it restart a service automatically if onecrashes?

["Erik LaBianca" <erik totalcirculation com>]

> 
> erik totalcirculation com ("Erik LaBianca") writes:
> 
> > Another possibility is to use daemontools...
> 
> Indeed, they are very usefully. But unfortunately, they are 
> not free software (like all the other djb stuff) and can not 
> be distributed therefore.
> 
> 
Are you sure daemontools isn't public domain? 

This is all I see:

[erik mises BUILD]$ head -1 daemontools/src/alloc.c
/* Public domain. */

I've heard tell that djb doesn't like binary redistribution of patched
binaries, but I don't see anything about it in the current daemontools
distro. He also has a treatise[1] about how he declaring code to be in
the public domain effectively relinquishes copyright. He does have a
redistribution page indidicating he doesn't want anyone to ship versions
of his software installed in a "non-standard" location, however [2].

Anyway, it looks like there may be some other replacements that might be
suitable alternative. It sure would be nice to have a simpler (read not
sysvinit) way to add "services" to a fedora system included with the
distro.

1. http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html

2. http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html

--erik