From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/661 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Larry Doolittle Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: runit on debian sid success, and questions Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:53:54 -0800 Message-ID: <20050119135354.B29307@recycle.lbl.gov> References: <20050118221224.A28147@recycle.lbl.gov> <20050119210728.GA5899@router.galaxy.loc> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106171644 5117 80.91.229.6 (19 Jan 2005 21:54:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thomas Schwinge Original-X-From: supervision-return-900-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Wed Jan 19 22:53:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by deer.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CrNm1-00042z-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:53:57 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 10578 invoked by uid 76); 19 Jan 2005 21:54:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 10573 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2005 21:54:17 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20050119210728.GA5899@router.galaxy.loc>; from schwinge-lists-skarnet.org-supervision@nic-nac-project.de on Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:07:28PM +0100 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:661 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:661 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