Talk:Runit

The current wiki page is imprecise and out of date. Here is a proposed set of changes to try and improve it.


 * Add general description of what runit is, what it does, and why one may want to use it.
 * Change recommendations (e.g remove /etc/local.d, and rather suggest /etc/runit/1 modification)
 * Add a section for replacing OpenRC and Sysvinit entirely
 * Add general explanation of how runit functions (potential link to socklog information as well?)
 * Add general recommendations on writing service directories
 * Add general recommendations for logging services (svlogd)
 * Fix reboot/shutdown compat. Most systems will use consolekit, which does not use them like so. Thus add information on that, and note that /sbin/runit-init is a thing (for systems without consolekit)

Planning to add examples / sample text for each of those here later; everything obviously open for discussion.