On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 11:44:53AM -0300, sawbona@??? wrote:

> > ... switch an existing daedalus system from sysvinit to runit ...

> Please excuse my ignorance in this specific matter ie: init software
> but I have a question:

> Why?

> Meaning: what convenience/s | advantage/s does [runit] offer your
> system (which you do not specify as a desktop or server) with
> respect to [sysvinit]?

It is a server (more precisely, a VPS).

The motivation is that I run a couple of daemons I compile myself and
they don't come with an official initscript. It seems easier to set up
an runit unit (is that the word?) than to write a clean and correct
sysvinit script.

However, since I posted that I thought of another aspect, namely
dependencies. I looked at the runit documentation and I don't quite
like the way it does that (when working as PID 1), which amounts to
polling. So maybe I'll stay with sysvinit as PID 1 and just install
runit as an intermediate nanny.

--
Ian