On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 15:03 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any pointers on where to start on converting a 10-15
> year old SysV style init script to OpenRC?
I'd start with "man openrc-run", and then read the service-script-
guide.md that is shipped & installed along with OpenRC.
OpenRC is similar to SysV but with a few added features:
* Dependencies (start service A before service B),
* A "checkpath" helper for setting permissions (be careful with
this, it's safer than chmod/chown but still not 100% secure),
* The ability to "background" a daemon and manage the PIDfile
itself,
* Sane default behaviors that let you avoid boilerplate by declaring
variables at the top of the service script.
