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Hi, |
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:58:01 +1200 "Thomas Kear" |
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<thomas.kear@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Having just had a quick look at runit, it appears we have the larger |
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> collection of init scripts, however being simple bash scripts it could |
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> be expected that runit's are slightly easier to make. |
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Runit does *not* depend on bash scripts but whatever you want. The |
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runsv binary just starts ./run in the service directory. |
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I like fefe's minit better, because you can even set arguments to |
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that ./run binary. That way, you can just make a symlink to the daemon's |
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executable and store the params in that mentioned file. This means you |
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don't have to start some kind of shell or script in order to execute |
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the daemon. |
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> The real advantage that initng posesses are, unless runit's website is |
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> simply failing to mention it, auto-restarting of failed daemons, |
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heh, runit's main purpose is "service supervision". If it wouldn't |
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restart failed daemons, the easiest approach would have bin |
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a /bin/sh-skript as init. |
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> virtual dependencies, |
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Yep, that's right. Minit has better dependency management, though, but |
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I think this would be overkill in most embedded systems anyway. |
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> and clever multi-distro compatible scripts that |
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> use a preprocessor at install time (see the #ifd / #elsed / #endd |
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> statements in a file like |
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> http://svn.initng.org/initng-ifiles/trunk/initfiles/system/modules.ii). |
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I don't think that start scripts for various daemons are absolutely |
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needed. They're more part of the init's documentation. And hey: For |
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best speed, multi-distro compatibility is a no-no. |
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> I've never tried RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP, haven't used sysvinit at all in |
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> 9 months. |
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I'd like to add that gentoo's own /sbin/rc is not a feature of |
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sysvinit. sysvinit is not *that* bad, after all. What has gone wild is |
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the /etc/init.d style of doing things. |
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-hwh |
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PS: the mentioned 30secs boot time in my previous mail to this thread |
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are for a Pentium MMX 166. Using Gentoo's init scheme, that would have |
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been forever. |
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