keep dspam alive?

[Terry Barnum]

Thank you Ryan. I'll see if I can test it tomorrow. 

-Terry

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On Aug 6, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Aug 6, 2013, at 14:09, Terry Barnum wrote:
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>> On Aug 6, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> On Aug 6, 2013, at 13:23, Terry Barnum wrote:
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>>>> The macports dspam port doesn't appear to create a launchd plist or daemondo wrapper. How would one create a daemondo .plist to restart dspam when it crashes?
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>>>> Right now I have this .plist and wrapper but they don't restart dspam when it crashes. Thanks for any guidance.
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>>> Rather than manually making a plist, startupitem directives should be added to the port.
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>> I agree, that would be certainly be the preferred fix, but since I have no port building skills what can I do in the meantime?
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> And I don't know dspam, so I need guidance from someone with dspam experience to know what parameters we need to use to start it, so that we can put that into the portfile.
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> The key to launchd is to make sure the spawned process does *not* go into the background. Looking at "man dspam" I think the way we do that is with the arguments --daemon --nofork.
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> I've filed a ticket for this enhancement request and attached a patch to it. Does that patch create a startupitem that works for you?
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> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40033
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