Re: runit on debian sid success, and questions

[Dean Hall <deanpence@gmail.com>]

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| My problem is not so much putting these daemons under runit,
| it's getting them _out_ of SysV init.  In the case of cron
| and portmap, I ended up simply getting rid of them.

How did you get rid of portmap? Did you get rid of the services for
which it's required? Or did you force them to use a static port?

| I can post my norc (antithesis of cron) script if anyone
| is interested.  It's a ten-line shell script that runs
| the scripts in /etc/cron.daily at three in the morning,
| using sleep and date.

You might check out uschedule <http://www.ohse.de/uwe/uschedule.html>.
It's a decent and simple cron and at replacement.

| I just noticed the ipsvd package yesterday, which is an
| apt-get away.  Whee!  I have started to phase out tcpserver.

For gentoo users out there, I've submitted an ebuild for ipsvd. Right
now it's only available at the bug post:
<http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76522>.

| I ran into odd runit shutdown behavior on another machine,
| vanilla Pentium (Celeron) with Debian sarge.  I don't have
| the exact message, but it said something like
|
|    power down
|    kernel panic, attempting to kill init!

I got that message too while running runit with Debian (custom install,
not apt-get). I never really researched it, as I knew I'd be switching
to Debian soon--and I haven't converted over to a runit init scheme yet.

| 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.

Yeah, you have to use the sysv init executable to shut down the machine
the first time. *shrug*


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