On 1-Oct-04, at 2:12 PM, John Nielsen wrote:

>>> This sheltered life of the daemons however seems to be causing me 
>>> some
>>> problems however.
>>
>> Whatever problems it might be causing you now will be more than 
>> repaid by
>> the problems it will save you over the life of your systems. Having an
>> entirely predictable and controlled environments in which daemons run 
>> is a
>> very good thing indeed.
>
> Heh, dont worry... I am allready more than completely sold.
>
> Quite frankely I cant for the life of me imagine why I have never seen 
> any
> distros using a managed boot system like runits. Runit has really 
> showed me
> that sysvinit doesnt really contain much more than what I could code 
> in bash
> in a few afternoons.

Annvix uses runit... I'm not aware of any others that do, but Annvix 
uses it completely out of the box.  The only service that is not run 
under runit is autofs, which I still have to figure out.  A few others 
are causing me some grief, but for the most part it is incredibly 
reliable.  (Note that I just switched from using daemontools to runit 
it for the distro about 2-3 weeks ago and the transition was fairly 
smooth although there are still a few things left to do).

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