On 25/02/2016 15:47, Steve Litt wrote:
Could somebody, in one or two sentences, tell me the difference between s6 vs s6-init? I'm not looking for references to big old documents: I'm looking for one or two sentences telling me the difference.
Still, big old documents have all the information you need, and more: the first lines of http://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/why.html would answer your question. s6 is a process supervisor. It manages daemons. s6-rc is a service manager. It manages the global state of a machine: what service is up, what service is down, with dependencies between services, and "services" being implemented by either a daemon or a one-shot script. s6-rc is a management layer running *on top of* s6. It uses the s6 infrastructure to do its job, but this job is not the same at all. -- Laurent
