xgrr.de – the whole not the half

I couldn’t believe it. I wanted to install daemontools a package programmed by Bernstein primarily to use with qmail. In the qmail “handbook” “Life with qmail” are a lot of tricks to patch this external tools. So even when I don’t install qmail but these external tools I check this site. When I downloaded the netqmail package I was astonished. After a few years of version 1.05 there was 1.06 released. Even better I found a site from Bernstein declaring that all the packages are really Open Source now and NOT prohibited from redistributing with modified source. This is a big happening for the qmail community because all the nice things can be included in one source now without the need of incompatible patches.

Currently I’m trying to code a new part of a project for my company called petliADMIN. It consists of two parts. A webapplication written in PHP which controls a C# based daemon running on the nodes which petliADMIN is about to administrate. The result of the project is something linke Webmin but with a node system with no need for an webserver on all nodes.

Now I’m encoutering a HUGE problem. It seems that C# does not know how to handle signals produced by the linux system it’s running on. I planned to run the application under Daniel J. Bernsteins’ daemontools which are running on serveral servers of mine. Now I have to figure out how to emulate signaling in C#….