Re: [gentoo-soc] (draft) final report for OpenRC soc project 2012

Dear Luca,

Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> writes:

> On 8/21/12 4:07 PM, heroxbd@×××××.com wrote:
>> For monitoring against OOM http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Monit
>
> So monit could be integrated in openrc easily ?

In the way of runit, yes. 

>> cron/at is too general to document, there is one at
>>
>>    http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
>
> Agreed.

:)

>> upstart is designed to replace cron
>>
>>    http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/ReplaceCron
>>
>> systemd recommends to replace cron
>>
>>    http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Optimizations
>>
>> while OpenRC just work with it. For some fancy new feature to be used on
>> non-servers, like "run every 5 minutes after start up", fcron can be
>> used.
>
> Not sure exactly what should we add here.

The feature of cron-like feature in systemd is limited, while in upstart
they just replace cron for "cleanness" and integration. I don't think
there is a special task OpenRC/cron can't do.

>> A stub page is below. Still thinking of how to present it. May be we can
>> just load it with examples which covers all the cases upstart being
>> proud of.
>>
>>     http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC/Event_Driven
>
> Yes, might be a good approach.

New examples welcome ;) How would gentoo deal with udev is still
unclear, while I think we can document the present udev features. udev
merge with systemd is not a big threat, is it?

>>    http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC/StackedRunlevel
>
> Interesting example

Thanks, it rocks. Now I tend to deploy OpenRC to all my debian boxes
gradually for it's flexibility.

Yours,
Benda