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rubygem-daemons


Information about the package, rubygem-daemons, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rubygem-daemons package is designed for, A toolkit to create and control daemons in different ways.


Package Name:

rubygem-daemons

Summary:

A toolkit to create and control daemons in different ways

Description:

Daemons provides an easy way to wrap existing ruby scripts (for example a self-written server) to be run as a daemon and to be controlled by simple start/stop/restart commands. You can also call blocks as daemons and control them from the parent or just daemonize the current process. Besides this basic functionality, daemons offers many advanced features like exception backtracing and logging (in case your ruby script crashes) and monitoring and automatic restarting of your processes if they crash.

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

1.0.10

Release:

2.el6

Size:

122 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

MIT and (GPLv2+ or Ruby)



Handy Yum Commands for rubygem-daemons


Control the rubygem-daemons package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install rubygem-daemons

This command will install rubygem-daemons on the server.

yum remove rubygem-daemons

This command will un-install rubygem-daemons on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rubygem-daemons, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove rubygem-daemons

This command will un-install rubygem-daemons on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rubygem-daemons when using the -y flag.

yum update rubygem-daemons

This command will update rubygem-daemons to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rubygem-daemons, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update rubygem-daemons

This command will update rubygem-daemons to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rubygem-daemons when using the -y flag.

yum info rubygem-daemons

This command will show you core information about the rubygem-daemons package.

yum deplist rubygem-daemons

This command will show you the dependencies for rubygem-daemons. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update rubygem-daemons

This command will check if there is an update waiting on rubygem-daemons. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.