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Re: Debian init choices



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 and how to troubleshoot it. What I don't know is:
> 
> 1) How to get the kernel to pass off control to Daemontools?
> 2) How to know which processes get run after boot?
> 3) Can one start drivers with Daemontools?
> 4) Would there be a performance or stability cost to doing this, other
>    than boot taking longer, which I don't care about that much?

You can put any executable binary in /sbin/init and the kernel will run
it when it's finished loading.

Cheers,
Tom

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