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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:13:03PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> For that installation, I simply used "apt-get install runit-init"
> once I had the basics tested under runit.  It was quite a trick
> to shut down the machine the first time after that install!
> Something like "/sbin/sysv-init 0" finally did it; telint was
> linked to runit-init, which of course didn't know how to shut
> down the system running under the old paradigm.  I think I saw
> a message giving hints about this as part of the apt-get, but
> I blew it off a little too lightly.

Yes, you really should've read the message prompted when installing the
runit-run package.  It tells you to use /sbin/init.sysv 6 ;-).
/usr/share/doc/runit-run/README.Debian also tells you that, not sure how
to document it more prominently.

Regards, Gerrit.