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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2026-01-06 03:05:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2026-01-06 03:05:27 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/s6-frontend-alias.html b/doc/s6-frontend-alias.html deleted file mode 100644 index 369c792..0000000 --- a/doc/s6-frontend-alias.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,128 +0,0 @@ -<html> - <head> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" /> - <title>s6-frontend: the s6-frontend-alias program</title> - <meta name="Description" content="s6-frontend: the s6-frontend-alias program" /> - <meta name="Keywords" content="s6 command s6-frontend-alias daemontools runit" /> - <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//skarnet.org/default.css" /> --> - </head> -<body> - -<p> -<a href="index.html">s6-frontend</a><br /> -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br /> -<a href="//skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a> -</p> - -<h1> The <tt>s6-frontend-alias</tt> program </h1> - -<p> -<tt>s6-frontend-alias</tt> is a multicall binary that implements -functionality from the -<a href="https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html">daemontools</a> package, -and/or from the -<a href="http://smarden.org/runit/">runit</a> package, whenever -possible, via -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a> commands. -</p> - -<h2> Interface </h2> - -<pre> - s6-frontend-alias [ -v ] <em>daemontools_command</em> <em>args...</em> - s6-frontend-alias [ -v ] <em>runit_command</em> <em>args...</em> - <em>daemontools_command</em> <em>args...</em> - <em>runit_command</em> <em>args...</em> -</pre> - -<p> -<tt>s6-frontend-alias</tt> can be called as is: then it takes the command -name as its argument. Or, it can be called directly as the wanted command. -It finds the closest approximation of the command in the s6 world, and -executes into it. When it cannot find a suitable idiomatic s6 version of -the wanted command, it prints an explanatory message to stderr, then -exits 100. -</p> - -<p> -<tt>s6-frontend-alias</tt> is only built when at least one of the -<tt>--enable-alias-daemontools</tt> and <tt>--enable-alias-runit</tt> -options have been given to configure at build time. -</p> - -<p> -When the <tt>--enable-alias-daemontools</tt> option has been given, -the following commands are created at installation time as symbolic -links to <tt>s6-frontend-alias</tt>, which recognizes them: -</p> - -<ul> - <li> envdir </li> - <li> envuidgid </li> - <li> fghack </li> - <li> multilog </li> - <li> pgrphack </li> - <li> readproctitle </li> - <li> setlock </li> - <li> setuidgid </li> - <li> softlimit </li> - <li> supervise </li> - <li> svc </li> - <li> svok </li> - <li> svscan </li> - <li> svscanboot </li> - <li> svstat </li> - <li> tai64n </li> - <li> tai64nlocal </li> -</ul> - -<p> -When the <tt>--enable-alias-runit</tt> option has been given, -the following commands are created at installation time as symbolic -links to <tt>s6-frontend-alias</tt>, which recognizes them: -</p> - -<ul> - <li> runit </li> - <li> runit-init </li> - <li> runsvdir </li> - <li> runsvchdir </li> - <li> runsv </li> - <li> svlogd </li> - <li> utmpset </li> -</ul> - -<p> -(The <tt>chpst</tt> and <tt>sv</tt> runit commands are recognized -by <tt>s6-frontend-alias</tt>, but handled by specific programs, -<a href="s6-frontend-alias-chpst.html">s6-frontend-alias-chpst</a> and -<a href="s6-frontend-alias-sv.html">s6-frontend-alias-sv</a>, and the -<tt>chpst</tt> and <tt>sv</tt> symbolic links point directly to those -programs.) -</p> - -<h2> Options </h2> - -<ul> - <li> <tt>-v</tt> : verbose. When <tt>s6-frontend-alias</tt> -is called under its own name and this option is given, it prints -an explanatory message to stderr before executing into the -corresponding idiomatic s6 command. </li> -</ul> - -<h2> Notes </h2> - -<ul> - <li> <tt>s6-frontend-alias</tt> is a convenience program, written -so that daemontools and runit users can keep using their habits while -transitioning to s6. However, it is not an "official" interface, -because s6 is strictly more powerful than daemontools, and has a few -significant fundamental differences with runit. Daemontools and runit -users are still encouraged to learn and get used to the native -s6 commands. </li> -</ul> - -</body> -</html> |