bind9 / named questions

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Jan 4 18:10:45 PST 2011


On Jan 3, 2011, at 09:58, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> daemondo is a part of MacPorts base. MacPorts uses it for all launchd plists it creates, though probably most software doesn't need it. I think it's needed for those ports whose daemons do not offer the option not to daemonize (which as discussed previously would be a problem for launchd); in that case, daemondo can monitor a pid file instead.
> 
> daemondo can also monitor for system configuration changes and act on them (so for named, it can restart when the network changes).

I thought launchd had that capability built-in as well.... but I can't find anything to confirm that so I may have been imagining it.




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