Re: runit on debian sid success, and questions

[Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>]

Thomas -

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:07:28PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:12:02PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> > > | It was quite a trick
> > > | to shut down the machine the first time after that install!
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
... when the machine is still running on SysV-init.

> > > Yeah, you have to use the sysv init executable to shut down the machine
> > > the first time. *shrug*
> > 
> > Right, but the list of familiar things that don't work (cntrl-alt-del, 
> > reboot, shutdown -h now, telinit 0) is much longer than what does work.
> 
> Of course, when you change the tools, you have to learn how to use the
> new ones.
> 
> /etc/runit/ctrlaltdel
> runit-init { 0 | 6 }
> ...
> 
> It's all written in the documentation.

That only applies _after_ runit has control.  That first time is
weird, and I hadn't appreciated how weird, until I actually sat
at the keyboard and tried to shut down.  SysV init is running,
but all the symlinks in the file system point away from the
SysV init-related executables.  To find myself, I ended up typing
   ls -l /sbin | grep init
That helped a lot!

       - Larry