Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
Hello Folks!
Nice to see LFS still active and up-to-date!
I was wondering if any of you have worked with, or have an opinion on
skalibs/s6 -- http://skarnet.org/software/s6/
I've been messing around with it quite a bit and I have to say I quite like
it. My motivation for evaluating was interest in finding a lighter, more
robust init system, something that was definitely _not_ systemd. Working
with it has also led me to re-evaluating how a system approaches logging,
with interesting consequences.
Hope this wasn't too off-topic, but if anyone has any opinions about it,
I'd love to hear them.
Hi Jeremy. It's been a long time. You are always welcome here.
I took a look at s6. It does seem to have some interesting features, but
to me they are not compelling for LFS. It seems to address servers more
than workstations, but I have not seen the problems it purports to solve.
We've had servers up for years without problems.
From the LFS standpoint, the strongest asset of sysv is it's
transparency. In total it is about 2000 lines of fairly simple bash
scripts. Users can go through those and modify/tweak to their heart's
content. They have full control.
For those who want or need more, there is systemd. You may not know that
we have integrated systemd and sysv into the same set of xml. We can
generate the systemd book merely by 'make REV=systemd'. sysv is the
default without the REV parameter.
Another init system would be very invasive for the book and would need a
dedicated maintainer for both LFS and BLFS.
-- Bruce
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