On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:31:08 -0500 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:50:09PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also > > heard from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that > > Daemontools wouldn't be a good replacement because it has no > > concept of running things in a specific order. > > > > So let me ask you this: If I wanted to replace systemd on a future > > Debian system, what would I replace it with, and how? > > > > Note: This is a serious question about technology, not politics, so > > will the multinamed screamer please stay out of this conversation? > > I would strongly consider a hybrid of the existing sysVinit and > daemontools or runit -- runit being a reimplementation of daemontools > that avoided the licensing issue and has a current maintainer. Yeah, I would strongly consider that too. I didn't know I could replace systemd with sysVinit once Jessie becomes stable. And I'll research runit to see if it's just like Daemontools. I'm really in love with Daemontools: It's not just a summer thing. > > sysVinit would be in charge of system boot, and runit in charge of > daemon supervision. A few simple modifications allows > /etc/init.d/ files to control the runit processes. :-) Would those modifications involve linking and unlinking directories to the /service (or /etc/service) directory, by any chance? > > Another interesting candidate is monit, which is similar in > basis to runit or daemontools, but spends more effort on trying > to monitor the results of the processes and send you alerts or > restart them on misbehavior. Thanks so much Dan. This is good information. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140304093757.3ea3c5c1@mydesk