Re: Debian init choices

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 06:44:33PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just wondering something. How much effort would it take for me, > personally, just me, to make my Debian Stable start all its processes > with DJB's Daemontools. I know Daemontools, I understand it, I know how > to wor

Re: Debian init choices

2014-03-02 Thread staticsafe
On 3/2/2014 20:23, staticsafe wrote: > You will need the scripts of course. Might need to run them yourself or > borrow from a distro that uses daemontools (are there any?) That would be "write them yourself". So much for proofreading.. -- staticsafe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: Debian init choices

2014-03-02 Thread staticsafe
On 3/2/2014 18:44, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just wondering something. How much effort would it take for me, > personally, just me, to make my Debian Stable start all its processes > with DJB's Daemontools. I know Daemontools, I understand it, I know how > to work with it and how to tr

Re: Debian init choices

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:53:35AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Actually, you just need to pass the proper 'init=' parameter to the > kernel. That works too, but by default the kernel will look for /sbin/init. For testing purposes passing the parameter would obviously be the safer choice. Che

Re: Debian init choices

2014-03-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 00:45:19, Tom Furie wrote: > > You can put any executable binary in /sbin/init and the kernel will run > it when it's finished loading. Actually, you just need to pass the proper 'init=' parameter to the kernel. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUse

Re: Debian init choices

2014-03-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 06:44:33PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > I was just wondering something. How much effort would it take for me, > personally, just me, to make my Debian Stable start all its processes > with DJB's Daemontools. I know Daemontools, I understand it, I know how > to work with it an

Debian init choices

2014-03-02 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I was just wondering something. How much effort would it take for me, personally, just me, to make my Debian Stable start all its processes with DJB's Daemontools. I know Daemontools, I understand it, I know how to work with it and how to troubleshoot it. What I don't know is: 1) How to g