goetia-s6-linux-init

What is it?

goetia-s6-linux-init contains a configuration for s6-linux-init. It also contains wrappers around some of s6-linux-inits commands to make them fit the rest of goetia. Finally, it contains service directories for some s6-linux-init specific daemons.

The configuration is used by copying the s6-linux-init directory in the installation directory to /etc/s6-linux-init/goetia, renaming the directory in the process.

It is critical, that some arguments given to ./configure during the installation of s6-linux-init match those used in the goetia packages. These are:

--tmpfsdir=... which must be the same in both the goetia packages and the s6-linux-init package. The default is in both cases the same and can be left unchanged. However, a change of this option in e.g. goetia-base mandates the exact same change of this option in s6-linux-init and vice versa.
--scandir=... of s6-linux-init which must match --sysrundir=... in goetia. This is by default not given. If the default of goetia packages is kept, --scandir=system/service has to be used for s6-linux-init. In general setting --sysrundir=@sysrundir@ on goetia packages means having to set --scandir=@sysrundir@/service on s6-linux-init.

Additionally two things in respect to the run-image subdirectory of the system configuration directory change for system supervision trees only.

The run-image subdirectory lies now at /etc/s6-linux-init/goetia/run-image instead of @sysconfdir@/system/run-image.
When using s6-linux-init, the run-image is now copied to @tmpfsdir@ instead of @tmpfsdir@/@sysrundir@/system. This has to be accomodated for by adding an additional system subdirectory between the run-image and the service directory. To make it more clear: this results in: /etc/s6-linux-init/goetia/run-image/system/service/ instead of /etc/goetia/system/run-image/service/ with goetia-linux-init. Bear in mind that this has to be further corrected for every non standard --sysrundir=... setting in the goetia packages.

If all defaults are kept on the other geotia packages, this means the following in practice:

During the installation of s6-linux-init, run at least ./configure --scandir=system/service.
Symlink or copy service directories to /etc/s6-linux-init/goetia/run-image/system/service/.

Installation

Requirements

A set of POSIX tools as described in the general requirements
A POSIX-compliant implementation of make, or GNU make
execline
s6
s6-rc
s6-linux-init

Licensing

goetia-s6-linux-init is free software. It is available under the ISC license.

Download

The current released version of goetia-s6-linux-init is 0.3.0.0. You can access its checksum here.
Alternatively, you can checkout a copy of the goetia-s6-linux-init git repository:
```
git clone git://git.0x53.net/goetia-s6-linux-init
```

Compilation

See the enclosed INSTALL file for installation details.

Reference

Commands

All of the following are execline scripts.

Service directories

Service directories specific to the Linux Kernel and to this init system.