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Re: Which Do You Prefer - OpenRC, s6, or runit??

Reply #30 –
Got it, appreciate your consideration.
Certainly waiting for the beta versions, I did not even sense that it was in early development at all :)

Re: Which Do You Prefer - OpenRC, s6, or runit??

Reply #31 –
Quote from: Hitman – on
I did not even sense that it was in early development at all :)

To be clear, every effort is made to ensure quality, stability and reliability even at this stage. But, it's not yet feature complete - and therefore is still "alpha".

Re: Which Do You Prefer - OpenRC, s6, or runit??

Reply #32 –
Runit. I like the daemon symlinking thing.

Re: Which Do You Prefer - OpenRC, s6, or runit??

Reply #33 –
I too am a runit fan. It's simple enough that I can understand the whole mechanism. The only thing I dislike is the logging. I try to use syslog as the added complexity of the individual logs is a distraction.

I have played with dinit (using the xfce-dinit iso), but it seemed to be more complicated than I need.

Re: Which Do You Prefer - OpenRC, s6, or runit??

Reply #34 –
Quote from: replabrobin – on
The only thing I dislike is the logging. I try to use syslog as the added complexity of the individual logs is a distraction.

The s6-log utility is one of the reasons I love s6. I don't even have a syslog daemon installed, just logrotate for the daemons that either don't play nice with redirecting stdout or when I don't want everything condensed into one log file.

On the other hand, if dinit already has more features than you need then I doubt s6 will suit you. I'd liken it to learning pacman... most of the time it's easy and you only need "-Syu" but when you have a problem or want to do something more involved it can suddenly feel a little complex.

Re: Which Do You Prefer - OpenRC, s6, or runit??

Reply #35 –
OpenRC because I'm very familiar with it. Does anyone have any info on the comparisons between the other init systems?