On 2022-10-18 12:13, Alexis wrote:
> https://github.com/flexibeast/s6-man-pages
>
> which at least some distros provide as a package.
>
>
Hi, Alexis. Thanks for pointing out. I am on FreeBSD and it looks like
it is not packaged here. I will see if I can package it myslef, if time
permits.
On 2022-10-18 00:58, Laurent Bercot wrote:
> > By testing I meant checking if the directory has an active process
> > watching it. I believe there is a function in skalibs fd_lock [1]
> > that svscan uses to check if another svscan runs there. I think it is
> > just a matter of exposing that
Ihor Antonov writes:
- there are no manual pages that would help with the point
above, and
short help messages are not very useful. ( I often resort to
reading
https://skarnet.org/software/s6 from my browser )
i might well be misunderstanding what you're saying, but as
Laurent
Thanks Peter, this was actually helpful and enchanced my mental model.
I think I get get away for now with a user's tree rooted in the system
tree. My graphics environment (sway) can start necessary services
when it is started.
Yeah, it's a recurring discussion on the IRC channels, and my
On 2022-10-17 23:42, Peter Shkenev wrote:
> ...
> 1) User services are services running as a given user and started at a
> boot time
> This option is a trivial one with s6.
>
> 2) User services are services defined by users and running supervised
> when the user wants it.
> You can implement this
Perhaps a higher-level orchestration tool(s) is/are needed, that
will accomplish most typical workflows like: (...)
These are all valid points, and things that ultimately s6-frontend,
the future UI over s6/s6-linux-init/s6-rc, aims to solve.
"Higher-level interface" is the (now) #1 feature
Hello,
On Mon Oct 17, 2022 at 8:50 PM MSK, Ihor Antonov wrote:
> Kicking off another thread because it is slightly different from UX
> related questions.
>
> I am trying to get s6-rc set up as a user service manager (similar how
> systemd allows user's to manage their own services with systemctl
Kicking off another thread because it is slightly different from UX
related questions.
I am trying to get s6-rc set up as a user service manager (similar how
systemd allows user's to manage their own services with systemctl --user
start bla).
This is useful for example for starting user's dbus,
On 2022-10-17 13:11, Laurent Bercot wrote:
>
> No, because these are operations that are ideally done at different
> times.
> - Compilation happens "offline", before you (re)boot the machine.
> - s6-svscan is run independently from s6-rc, typically very early
> during the boot sequence.
Perhaps I can offer a few suggestions how to improve usability:
- combine compile + svscan on empty dir + init steps into one, like
`s6-rc init source_dir` and it does those steps under the hood.
No, because these are operations that are ideally done at different
times.
- Compilation
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