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Auteur: aitor_czr
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À: dng, Steve Litt
Sujet: Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 32, Issue 46
Steve,

El 27/05/17 a las 14:00, Steve Litt <slitt@???> escribió:
>> Hi!
>> Does anyone have a clue about runit?
>>
>> There's RC bug #861536 in Debian that's marked stretch-will-remove,
>> and the maintainer can't currently fix it as he dared to not kowtow
>> deep enough before Putin and is currently locked up in a nasty
>> political case.
>>
>> While Debian is not Devuan, removal of alternative inits would hurt
>> you pretty bad as there's no manpower to maintain all the init
>> scripts, thus it's strongly in your interest to keep them at least
>> present.
>>
>> I for one don't know anything about runit, and don't have the time
>> right now. Would anyone care to help?
>>
>>
>> Meow!
> No sweat!
>
> runit is one of those pieces of software so simple and so dependency
> free that it's really better to install it outside of the distro.
>
> Runit is two pieces: A PID1 that does little more than spawn a couple
> rc files and then spin handling signals, and a process supervisor much
> like daemontools.
>
> More cool still, there's an easy, gentle way to ease your way into
> runit. Back up your current sysvinit PID1: Actually back up the
> computer just in case, and then download the runit tarball and install
> as suggested. I personally suggest you let it default to installing
> in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/man.
>
> If you care about stuff like runlevels, you need to make some symlinks.
> Otherwise it's pretty straightforward and if you know daemontools you
> pretty much know the supervision part of runit. After compiling, you
> copy /etc/2 to /sbin/runsvdir-start, in that shellscript change the -P
> argument of runsvdir to whatever directory you're using for your
> symlink dir (most people don't want to create /service right off the
> root), and put "SV:123456:respawn:/sbin/runsvdir-start" at the bottom
> of /etc/inittab (I'm assuming you're using sysvinit).
>
> Then, one by one, just shift your daemons from sysvinit via /etc/rc.d
> to runit via a run script in a symlinked directory. Coolly, your
> typpical 300 line sysvinit init file is replaced by a less than 10 line
> run script. Run scripts are pretty much all the same once you really
> get used to it.
>
> I can help.
>
> Later, when you've used runit as a daemontools substitute for awhile,
> and want to let runit do your whole init, you can switch your grub to
> init via runit-init, and build a good shutdown script as /etc/runit/3.
> But that's a long way off: Get used to it as a supervision tool first.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> May 2017 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/28


Runit intriges me :)

Cheers,

Aitor.

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