[ale] A history of modern init systems (1992-2015)

Jeremy T. Bouse jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net
Wed Sep 9 13:14:53 EDT 2015


And here all along I just thought daemontools only existed because DJB
doesn't like to use tools he didn't write himself.

On 9/9/2015 12:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> This is timely!
>
> A history of modern init systems (1992-2015)
>
> http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/
>
> Covers all the inits mentioned in the recent init thread.
>
> I guess it's no secret that I'm a big fan of daemontools-inspired init
> systems. Therefore, I think one of the docs linked in this blog is
> *extremely* useful:
>
> http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/daemontools.html
>
> By reading all the article contained in the preceding link, you'll know
> exactly what daemontools is, how it works, why it's so good, how to
> install it, and how to set up a daemontools service. Once you know
> daemontools, daemontools-encore, s6 and runit are all pretty obvious to
> you.
>
> Another good link in the blog is:
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/daemontools-family.html
>
> The preceding link lists all the major and minor daemontools-inspired
> inits and process supervisors.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt 
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