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sysvinit s6Based on our record, s6 seems to be a lot more popular than sysvinit. While we know about 11 links to s6, we've tracked only 1 mention of sysvinit. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
It's a plus because Gentoo fully supports the choice of Systemd or OpenRC. It also has minit, dumb-init, sysvinit, cinit in tree for the more adventurous. No one was calling the AUR bloat, the parent comment just mentions that Gentoo has an equivalent project, GURU. Source: almost 2 years ago
This page and this page, both by Laurent Bercot, creator of s6. Source: about 1 year ago
Of the two I have experience with, runit is simpler and thus easier to get the hang of than s6-rc/s6. Though the s6 (not s6-rc) docs at the author's site contain a lot of info (including apologetics and rationales) that applies almost equally well to runit. Source: about 1 year ago
Using the s6-service add command I added a service called "libvertd" when I ment to put "libvirtd". Now when I run s6-db-reload it spits out a error message saying "undefined service name libvertd". But I cant remove it using s6-service remove libvertd because that just spits out a generic help message and doesn't change anything. I also couldn't find documentation on Https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ or... Source: over 1 year ago
For the trivia, this is pushed by Laurent Bercot (skarnet), creator of s6, execline and many others. He's also working on implementing s6 as Alpine init and rc systems. https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
FWIW, the spirit of daemontools lives on in the s6 project. https://skarnet.org/software/s6/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
systemd - systemd is a replacement for the init daemon for Linux (either System V or BSD-style).
runit - runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision, a replacement for sysvinit...
Supervisor - Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of...
M/Monit - Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.
Upstart - Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and...
Dinit - Dinit is a service supervisor with dependency support which can also act as the system "init" program.
