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Author: Joel Roth
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Apparently Jessie has runit
Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:23:10 +0000
> Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
>
> > Steve Litt <slitt@???> writes:
> > > People aren't completely alone on run scripts: I can give them any
> > > run scripts I'm using. Also, Runit run scripts are *nothing* like
> > > sysvinit or OpenRC init scripts:
> >
> > There is no such thing as a "sysvinit init script". The way the
> > sysvinit program is usually employed on Linux is such that it's
> > instructed to run the command /etc/init.d/rc with the run-level
>
>
> > The commands which are actually executed via these S- and K-links come
> > from individual packages and ultimatively contain whatever the people
> > responsible for that considered sensible.
>
> The actual files to which the S- and K-links point are the "init
> scripts" to which I refer. So perhaps I used the wrong name for them.
> Anyway, they're usually an unholy mess, usually over 40 lines, I think
> I remember seeing some go over 100.


Hi Steve,

How complicated is it to port such scripts to runit? Exim4's
init.d script is 275 lines.

Joel

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