Re: How to use s6 and s6-rc together

2017-05-19 Thread Robert Hill
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Luis Ressel wrote: > ​>​ > ​ ​ > Yes, when your init exec's into s6-svscan, it will immediately start all > ​>​ > ​ ​ > services in the scandir (unless the corresponding servicedir contains > ​>​ > ​ ​ > a down file). > ​>​ > > ​>​ > ​ ​ >

Re: How to use s6 and s6-rc together

2017-05-18 Thread Laurent Bercot
If you're using down files to determine startup order, do you have a different filename (LittKit calls it 'reallydown") to take over the former functionality of the down file (to make the service down for awhile, through reboots)? There's no need for such a thing when your services are managed

Re: How to use s6 and s6-rc together

2017-05-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 19 May 2017 00:02:00 +0200 Luis Ressel wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2017 16:28:17 -0500 > Robert Hill wrote: > > > The overview for s6-rc > > mentions that: > > > > > the chosen init should make

Re: How to use s6 and s6-rc together

2017-05-18 Thread Luis Ressel
On Thu, 18 May 2017 16:28:17 -0500 Robert Hill wrote: > The overview for s6-rc > mentions that: > > > the chosen init should make sure that a s6 supervision tree is up > > and running. s6-rc will only work if there is

How to use s6 and s6-rc together

2017-05-18 Thread Robert Hill
Hello list, I have read the documentation for s6 and s6-rc at skarnet.org, but I am having a little trouble understanding the fundamentals of how to get my Slackware box running using it as both the init, process supervisor, and service manager. (I am still in the exploratory stages of this