- s6-linux-init is a set of minimalistic tools used to create a s6-based init system, including a /sbin/init binary, on a Linux kernel. It is a part of the s6 ecosystem.
- s6 is a process supervision suite that also provides tools for service management (s6-rc) and system initialization/shutdown (s6-linux-init).
- The run image can be in a read-only filesystem, and must be subdirectory run-image of s6-linux-init's base directory (normally /etc/s6-linux-init/current).
- However, the most mature implementation of S6-init seems to be on Obarun, an Arch-based distro and, as far as I know, without any input from the author of S6...
- Using s6 for simple, reliable init on Linux. ... The s6 site has a great post on how to use s6 as your pid 1, and I referred to it continuously for guidance.
- Explanations on s6-linux-init are given in comments in the deploy script, which will turn into the generic script [WIP] at some point.
- skarnet / s6-linux-init Public. ... s6-linux-init is a suite of tools designed to provide an init program for the Linux kernel - i.e., the first program run at boot time.
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- The only official released distro which has S6 with the 66 Service Manager is Obarun. The init diversity spins ( Antix, MX, Devuan) have it but they are spins...
- Would go in further details in s6 in future and where else we can use it, the home page itself mentions syslogd, or system V init is quite legacy etc.
- My goal with the example is to provide a barebones demonstration of s6-linux-init bringing up a s6-svscan based process supervision tree.
- Hi, I just have found the information abou s6 init system, it looks rather cool, like improved `runit`. Why does not void uses it by default?
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