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Auteur: Didier Kryn
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À: dng
Sujet: Re: [DNG] Mixing different init benefits: was: without-systemd.org not working
Le 26/05/2020 à 10:26, Steve Litt a écrit :
> On Mon, 25 May 2020 10:08:17 -0700
> Ian Zimmerman <itz@???> wrote:
>
>> On 2020-05-21 14:09, Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>>> * Busybox init
>>> * Epoch
>>> * OpenRC
>>> * Runit
>>> * s6 (plus s6-rc)
>>> * Suckess init plus [daemontools | runit | s6]
>>> * systemd
>>> * sysvinit
>> * GNU Shepherd ?
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
> The preceding looks like an extremely capable init system that will
> handle almost any situation, assuming the admin has the skill to make
> it so. It seems to enable one to do tons of things that runit doesn't
> facilitate.
>
> On the other hand, GNU Shepherd makes me realize how easy runit is to
> administer. I can do it in my sleep.
>
> If anyone does a Jitsi presentation on GNU Shepherd, I'd *really* like
> to be in the audience. This looks potentially like a very high quality
> init, probably for the kind of person with lots of tricky daemons to
> administer.
>
> Thanks for pointing out Shepherd.
>

    +1.

    Questions and remarks:

    How much can one trust a program written in the Guile language and
running as PID1 as suggested?

    Note it does not seem mandatory to run it as PID1.

    It being an official GNU product makes it deserve a try a priori.

    Did it exist prior to the creation of Systemd?

        Didier