On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:31:51 +0200
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:

>      Any news of s6? I'm afraid Laurent has leaved the list, either 
> because he didn't like our disussions or because he was upset by his 
> emails from dynamic address being rejected.

My understanding is the newest thing is s6-rc, which I understand is
just like s6 except it enables ordered process startup on boot.

I've used s6. It's a heck of a lot like Runit, which I use every day,
except s6 is a tiny more sophisticated, and in s6 the process
supervisor is in PID1, not in a separate process like in Runit.

<opinion>
Just like Runit, s6 can easily be installed on Devuan (but not Debian),
by a fairly knowledgeable user, because the sysvinit it replaces is a
small, encapsulated module. The real beauty of this is you can "dual
init", where if your grub init reference is /sbin/init, you do a
sysvinit, whereas if it's /sbin/runit, you init via Runit. You can go
back and forth with every boot. If several Devuan users do this DIY
change of init, it will provide valuable insight into other inits, in
case at a later date Devuan decides to move off of sysvinit.

NOTE: I'd suggest installing runit or s6 direct from their projects,
and not from any Debian->Devuan packages. The packages would remove the
possibility of dual init, and the packages likely won't work.
</opinion>

SteveT

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