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On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 15:03 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Does anyone have any pointers on where to start on converting a 10-15 |
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> year old SysV style init script to OpenRC? |
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I'd start with "man openrc-run", and then read the service-script- |
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guide.md that is shipped & installed along with OpenRC. |
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OpenRC is similar to SysV but with a few added features: |
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* Dependencies (start service A before service B), |
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* A "checkpath" helper for setting permissions (be careful with |
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this, it's safer than chmod/chown but still not 100% secure), |
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* The ability to "background" a daemon and manage the PIDfile |
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itself, |
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* Sane default behaviors that let you avoid boilerplate by declaring |
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variables at the top of the service script. |
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