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From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
To: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: restarting s6-svscan (as pid 1)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:45:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231117174509.44742047@mydesk.domain.cxm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qco81jj.fsf@telent.net>

dan@telent.net said on Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:20:32 +0000


>I was thinking I could use the .svscan/finish script to check for the
>existence of the "maintenance mode" ramfs, remount it onto /
>and then `exec /bin/init` as its last action, though it seems a bit
>cheesy to have a file called `finish` that actually sometimes performs
>`single-user-mode` instead. Would that work?

I don't know if it would work. Why not try it. Also, you might need to
make changes to the 3 script.

As far as "cheesy", the only disadvantage is self-documentation, and
self-documentation could be preserved by adding a properly named script
and calling or exec'ing it.

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-11-17 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-17 22:20 dan
2023-11-17 22:38 ` adam
2023-11-17 22:45 ` Steve Litt [this message]
2023-11-18  0:58 ` Laurent Bercot
2023-11-19  0:31   ` Daniel Barlow
2023-11-19  1:46     ` Laurent Bercot

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