[ale] Alright, it's time to move on from Linode

[Michael Trausch]

Oh, wait? So you went on record as an expert in init systems, and you've not even written one? Sue me for misunderstanding, but that's seem to imply you've no expertise there. 

I *have* actually written a small init system with my needed features cherry-picked, for embedded systems. But you claimed to be more of an expert than I on the subject.

Yet more evidence that you're just full of it. 

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> On Jan 10, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 22:26:46 -0500
> Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Since you've written your own init systems and the like and are
>> *such* an expert there, I'll leave the actual exercise of the C code
>> to you.
> 
> I'll leave the rest of Michael's post to stand on its own merit, but
> feel it necessary to clarify the preceding assertion...
> 
> I've never written an init system. I have no incentive to do so,
> because Epoch, Runit and s6 do everything I need. After using Runit the
> last 3 months, I feel absolutely no desire to switch inits.
> 
> Perhaps Michael was referring to the fact that I cobbled together a
> functional init out of the Suckless Init PID1 plus Bruce Guenter's
> daemontools-encore process supervisor plus a set of shellscripts I call
> LittKit to enforce startup ordering on daemontools-encore. Or the fact
> that I later substituted Rich Felker's 16 line PID1 for Suckless Init:
> 
> http://troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/suckless_init_on_plop.htm
> 
> Perhaps the "you've written your own init systems" refers to the fact
> that I've installed non-packaged, straight-from-the-upstream Runit and
> Epoch inits on distros like Manjaro and Centos.
> 
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/init/manjaro_experiments.htm
> 
> But take it from me: I've never created an init from scratch. I leave
> that to people a lot smarter than I: Gerrit Pape, Subsentient, and
> Laurent Bercot. 
> 
> My apologies to anyone who got the idea that I had written my own init
> systems from scratch.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt 
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