Example scripts

[frioux]

I think it would be really cool, expecially for casual" users like myself, if
you had a set of control scripts for a starting point for creating the external
scripts.

Obviously this is not my forté, but a fun thing to do might be to make a
daemonproxy based perp (similar commands), so maybe

• derpctl
• derphup
• derpls
• derpok
• derpstat

I might try my hand at this, but I'm honestly not really sure where to start; I
guess if I were using perl I'd want to have an event loop watching for events on
STDIN and on some domain socket for external control? I'll let you know if I
come up with anything.

Oh also, I'd understand if you don't think that stuff like this should be
bundled with daemonproxy, but at least linking to examples would be nice.

[nrdvana]

I would love to bundle a simple one in the doc directory. Event based listening to a unix socket is also how I'd do it.

At some point I want to write something complete like perp and publish on cpan. I'll also be writing a module for rapidapp to run background jobs some day soon.

[nrdvana]

Oh, and I just added an example which performs an orderly shutdown of all services.

[frioux]

Another idea for an example script. Maybe this is too far, but it would be sorta neat if daemonproxy read a dir like runit and the original djb tools did. Might be too much work, but at least supporting ./run and ./log/run would go a long way.

[nrdvana]

I'm going to write a separate project for this, and I've started it at https://github.com/silverdirk/desd/

It's mostly a blank slate so far. Feel free to contribute ideas.

[nrdvana]

That tool will use Daemonproxy::Protocol (from this repo) to talk to daemonproxy. I haven't made much progress on the lib lately because I'm having trouble imagining all the use cases the library should handle. By making an actual end-product, it will help me see what problems this library should solve.