Re: [system-tools] s-t-b 2.1.0

[Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus FreeBSD org>]

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Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Sorry, perhaps this change should have been announced more broadly. I'll
> take this mail as an excuse to do that :)

Thanks.  I got most of that from the README, but it wasn't clear that
this new dispatcher should be the command in the init script.  The
description below seems to confirm that it should be.

Joe

> 
> <announce>
> 
> Main changes in system-tools-backeds 2.1.x:
> 
> The main program now is a C/GLib/DBus dispatcher
> in /usr/bin/system-tools-backends. it launches its own private bus and
> spawns the necessary configuration modules under request, those modules
> shutdown after some inactivity time.
> 
> This reduces memory usage down to ~200Kb of writable memory during
> inactivity, and will also allow to develop modules in other languages
> for those who can't see a line of Perl code without vomiting ;)
> 
> </announce>
> 
> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 14:29 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> I noticed this new dispatcher in s-t-b 2.1.0.  I assume that the init
> script for s-t-b should now call this dispatcher instead of the
> SystemToolsBackend.pl script?  It would be nice if a sample init script
> 
>> That's right, perhaps the CLI should have been more abstracted since the
>> beginning (a shell script or something, dunno...)
> 
> could be included in the distribution to help ports.  I'd be happy to
> offer up FreeBSD's:
> 
>> Thanks, it would be a good idea to install initscripts for the distros
>> it recognizes, and a huge warning if it doesn't, will work on it soon.
> 
>> where should that script be installed?
> 
>> 	Thanks!
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # PROVIDE: system-tools-backends
> # REQUIRE: DAEMON dbus
> #
> 
> . /etc/rc.subr
> . /usr/local/etc/gnome.subr
> 
> system_tools_backends_enable=${system_tools_backends_enable-${gnome_enable}}
> 
> name=system_tools_backends
> rcvar=`set_rcvar`
> command="/usr/local/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl"
> pidfile="/var/run/system-tools-backends.pid"
> 
> load_rc_config ${name}
> run_rc_command "$1"
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Joe
> 
> --
> Joe Marcus Clarke
> FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome FreeBSD org
> FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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