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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:35:45 +0000
Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> wrote:

> Hi, runit version 1.0.0 is released and available through
> 
>  http://smarden.org/runit/
> 
> runit is a cross platform UNIX init scheme with service supervision, see
> the web page for details.
> 
> The documentation has been updated slightly since the latest test
> package, there were no changes to the runit source code.  This is the
> first stable release of runit.
> 
> Regards, Gerrit.
> -- 
> Open projects at http://smarden.org/pape/.
> 

Gerrit,

I am using runit - indeed I'm trying to write up how to use it as an
alternative to the standard SysVinit boot-scripts for Linux From Scratch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org.

However, I'm a little stumped on the way stage 1 is managed.  The manual states
that 'If /etc/runit/1 itself crashes, runit will skip stage 2 and enter stage
3'. Can you say what exactly that means?  If I exit -1, it just reports a
warning and then enters stage 2 as normal.  I want to be able to say 'things
got too difficult in stage 1' and get straight to stage 3 and an orderly
shutdown.

Also, how would you expect a stage 1 script to provide an emergency shell?

Cheers,
Richard.

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