s6/s6-rc policy for Gentoo

[Paul Sopka]

Hey everybody







Currently I see two major things I still need to solve:








Regarding 2) I do not currently have an idea.



Of course, I will notify this list once the repo is up.




I wish you all a nice weekend!

Paul

I am currently working on implementing boot scripts, system services, user services and general policy for Gentoo with s6/s6-rc. I will soon (once I consider it acceptable) publish a github repo of my current state, so others can criticize, improve and suggest components. The plans is to, after some fleshing out, open another repo containing an overlay with a profile and some packages, so it can be easily installed for testing purposes. In the best case this shall once be merged into official Gentoo. 1) A service monitoring logged in users, starting the user supervision tree on the first login of a user and stopping it once the user logs out from the last shell/display manager 2) An elegant way of synchronizing environment variables between the users supervision tree and its services and the users login shell/compositor/... Regarding 1) the best idea I currently is to have a daemon monitoring /var/run/utmp, starting an sub-process/s6-rc service for each user appearing there and stopping this sub-process/s6-rc service once the last login instance of the user vanished from that file. Since I have very little programming experience, I wanted to as you, Bercot, whether you consider this a good idea and if you do, whether this would be worth a s6 program. Can this be achieved in a better way? Apart from those, there is still a lot to do, e.g. writing basic service scripts, and improving and expanding the boot scripts. Any suggestions and ideas are welcome, even if they do not belong to 1) or 2)!

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