Hi!
I've started trying to follow the instructions on getting Debian to use 
runit as init, on Jessie.
http://smarden.org/runit/replaceinit.html
I think I've finally got it going, with most of the old /etc/init.d/ 
scripts just run from /etc/runit/1, but autofs, ypbind and sshd being 
run as services.
Quite a few things seem to be subtly (but trivially) wrong in the 
instructions to get this going, so although it's actually quite 
straightforward now I've worked out what I'm doing, it took a lot longer 
than I expected.
For example, the service directory in the instructions is /service, but 
debian now uses /etc/service (OK....), but the example [123] scripts 
shipped in /usr/share/doc still use /service, and at least in my case, 
having a symlink in /service resulted in weird error messages which went 
away once I fixed this.
Are there any plans to create a debian package that would just put all 
the bits in the right place, so you can simply install the package and 
have it then use runit-init as /sbin/init ?
Thanks!
Luke
Received on Thu Jan 01 2015 - 23:39:07 UTC