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Does anybody have experience with sinit?

So this is the suckless init: https://core.suckless.org/sinit/

I find it very interesting and am currently planning to move my system from OpenRC to sinit.

Yes, I am fully aware that it has no supervision capabilities by itself, but in my experience I never had to deal with daemons suddenly dropping dead on me, so I'm fine with sinit not having those capabilities.

With that being said, what are the advices of people who have experience with this init?
Are there any specific pitfalls for Artix?

Re: Does anybody have experience with sinit?

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sinit does not contain any poweroff/reboot tools. I found sbase+ubase installed to /opt useful to solve this issue - they provide halt command required to actually power off device, and killall5 required to kill all processes. Take a look at sta.li and morpheus init scripts (these are the distros of some suckless guys) to understand the flow you need. There is also a presentation about using runit as supervision suite for sinit
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