sysinit reference release

sysinit reference release

[Dean Hall]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hi all,

I've created a project on SourceForge that may be of interest to runit
users. It's called sysinit, and you can find the reference release (it's
not quite ready for an official release yet) at
<http://sysinit.sourceforge.net>. (I'm still waiting for Freshmeat
approval.)

I created sysinit to handle:
- - serial system initialization and system shutdown (a la SysV)
- - daemon management with the help of runit or daemontools (including
some simple dependency handling)

The first part is usable with or without runit/daemontools, and the
second part is usable whether or not you use runit as process number
one, but I intend for this to be usable and useful for
sysadmins/distributions that use any of the above.

The first part I created because I can't stand Debian's (and other
distros') SysV initialization scripts. The second part is just what I've
created while using daemontools and now runit. sysinit aims to integrate
the two parts of system initialization and provide clean, robust
interfaces to them both.

The README is the first place to start for the details.

Gerrit, would it be all right if we discussed people's thoughts on
sysinit on this list for a bit? I'm hoping to get a list up and running
somewhere soon (although sysinit.org's taken), but I figured this would
be an appropriate spot to talk about what people like/dislike/want/don't
want from a package like this.

Thanks.


Regards,
Dean Hall
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFA3/zLBnn70KGO4CURAl65AJ9Wz5ijw0Cy6Jf4tOHTAoB2kjBNlgCfT9Hb
sQVdCx7AxEWG1unW+QKeng0=
=fVIe
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Re: sysinit reference release

[Gerrit Pape]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 06:11:07AM -0500, Dean Hall wrote:
> Gerrit, would it be all right if we discussed people's thoughts on
> sysinit on this list for a bit? I'm hoping to get a list up and running

It's fine with me, but I'm also just a guest with my project here.  Ska
thankfully makes this public discussion list available.

Regards, Gerrit.

Re: sysinit reference release

[Laurent Bercot]

> Gerrit, would it be all right if we discussed people's thoughts on
> sysinit on this list for a bit? I'm hoping to get a list up and running
> somewhere soon (although sysinit.org's taken), but I figured this would
> be an appropriate spot to talk about what people like/dislike/want/don't
> want from a package like this.

 Sure. Service supervision, init scripts, dependency handling, sysvinit
replacements, etc. all match this list's topic.

-- 
 Gerr^H^H^H^HSka

 ;)