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Author: dev1fanboy
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To: Steve Litt
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Apparently Jessie has runit
Yes devuan has it, I was thinking about trying it but I think people are on their own for init scripts with runit.

On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 2:31 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Apparently Debian Jessie (and therefore I'd assume Devuan Jessie) has
> the Runit init system as an option:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/es/jessie/runit
>
> Obviously, Devuan Jessie should default to sysvinit: There's enough
> other work to do.
>
> That being said, anyone who wants to get familiar with a more powerful
> (than sysvinit and systemd) init system might want to experiment with
> runit in an experimental VM. I use runit on a daily basis, and the
> longer I use it the more sense it makes.
>
> And with Runit, creating your own daemon is nothing more than writing a
> program that keeps looping. No backgrounding necessary (or desired).
>
> Have fun experimenting.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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