Re: s6-rc setup

From: Jan Olszak <jan.olszak_at_vestiacom.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:17:00 +0100

I work on a medium-sized embedded system.
So far I've done as little as possible in inittab (syslog, getty, mounts)
+ s6-svscan starts all other stuff.

s6-svscan doesn't run with PID 1. It's started in inittab.

So can I setup s6-rc + initd and later use s6-linux-init? Would that add
any work compared to doing both at the same time?

Jan


On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Laurent Bercot <ska-supervision_at_skarnet.org
> wrote:

> - What's the best approach to setup s6-rc?
>>
>
> That's... a complex question, because it depends on a lot of parameters.
> What is your context? what is your environment? How have you set up
> your machine so far? etc.
>
>
> - I see this tool http://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/ for init
>> creation. Is this the right direction?
>>
>
> s6-linux-init is a shortcut to help people run s6-svscan as process 1
> with a catch-all logger: it simply automates the difficult task of
> writing a stage 1 init. It does not write your stage 2 for you -
> which is where s6-rc would get involved.
>
> You can use s6-linux-init if you wish, but if you have already manually
> done the work of setting up a s6 infrastructure with s6-svscan running
> as process 1, you probably don't need to.
>
> In order to use s6-rc, what you need to do is 1. analyze your current
> boot process: what services are started, what is a one-shot and what
> spawns a daemon, what are the dependencies between those steps.
> 2. write a set of definition directories, in the s6-rc source format,
> that represents those services and their dependencies. 3. compile that
> set via s6-rc-compile. 4. change your stage 2 init into something akin
> to "s6-rc-init && s6-rc change my-runlevel", if "my-runlevel" is a
> bundle representing all the services you want to have at boot time.
>
> --
> Laurent
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 25 2016 - 14:17:00 UTC

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