[talk] In Contrast to BSD init, A history of modern init systems (1992-2015)

Malcolm Matalka mmatalka at gmail.com
Sat Sep 19 03:49:17 EDT 2015


It is not an init system, as I said in the first email you responded to,
however multiple init systems have drawn inspiration directly from it such
as runit and s6.  It is also covered in the initial link that kicked off
this discussion due to its influence.

It would be appreciated if you read the content being discussed, and your
own links, better, especially when you take on an aggressive and
authoritative tone.

Thanks.
Den 19 sep 2015 09:45 skrev "Sujit K M" <kmsujit at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > If you take a few minutes to read the website you'll notice that is
> imaging
> > software, not an init system. The website you want is:
> >
> > http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
>
> So how is this a init system. It is only a way to Manage UNIX
> Services. Quote from the home page.
>
> "What is it?
>
> daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services.
>
> supervise monitors a service. It starts the service and restarts the
> service if it dies. Setting up a new service is easy: all supervise
> needs is a directory with a run script that runs the service.
>
> multilog saves error messages to one or more logs. It optionally
> timestamps each line and, for each log, includes or excludes lines
> matching specified patterns. It automatically rotates logs to limit
> the amount of disk space used. If the disk fills up, it pauses and
> tries again, without losing any data."
>
> Regards,
>
> >
> > Den 19 sep 2015 09:31 skrev "Sujit K M" <kmsujit at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> http://www.daemon-tools.cc/support/faq#free_or_not
> >>
> >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Sujit K M <kmsujit at gmail.com> writes:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Please stop promoting proprietary solutions to the list.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > daemontools is open source and has been modified/extended in multiple
> >> > ways (daemontools-encore, runit).  I'm not sure how I am promoting a
> >> > proprietary solution, please enlighten me?
> >>
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