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

[Luca Barbato]

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 ?

> 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.

>>>> 5. event driven actions
>>>>
>>>>      Same as hotplug feature already in OpenRC, triggered by udev, just
>>>>      lack of documentation. If used with runlevel stacking (another under
>>>>      documented feature of OpenRC), it can cover all the use cases I could
>>>>      imagine.
>>>>
>>>>      That's enough. upstart features a udev-upstart-bridge after all. It
>>>>      is a cool feature and we can adopt it with a combo of tools and
>>>>      achieve sane default behavior by packaging with, e.g., our beloved
>>>>      ebuild. The revolutionary event based init design is more of
>>>>      propaganding, IMHO.
>>>
>>> I'd like to see a wiki page or some more on that =)
>>
>> Got it, underway...
>
> 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.

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

Interesting example

lu