On 25/10/17 19:51, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> How bout this: Have a "runit-supervisor-only" pacakge that installs
> runit but doesn't make it PID1. Have sysvinit run runit, and have runit
> run redis, with all the correct config. The runit run script is
> probably 1/10 the size of its bloatacious and apparently broken sysvinit
> init script, so it's easy to correctly design the runit run script.
As far as I know there is nothing  broken about the redis init scripts
in Debian.

They are around 89 lines long.  Hardly broken compared to most init
scripts, check out /etc/init.d/sendmail -- a 1321 line monster in some
versions.