About:
runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision; a replacement for sysvinit and other init schemes. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1 performs the system's one-time initialization tasks. Stage 2 starts the system's uptime services (via the runsvdir program). Stage 3 handles the tasks necessary to shutdown and halt or reboot.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
The default directory for services is now /service/, and no longer /var/service/. When installing runit on a system that should comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), neither /service/ nor /var/service/ should be chosen, but /etc/service/. It is recommended to create a compatibility symlink /service pointing to /etc/service in this case. This version additionally fixes the runsv program to properly handle service directories with ./log being a symlink to a directory on a different device, and slightly updates the sv program and the documentation.

Author:
Gerrit Pape [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.41/10.00 (5 votes)

Homepage:
http://smarden.org/runit/
Tar/GZ:
http://smarden.org/runit/install.html
Changelog:
http://smarden.org/runit/upgrade.html
Mailing list archive:
http://news.gmane.org/[..]gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (revised)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Topic]		System :: Boot :: Init

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	2.0.0	25-Jun-2008	BSD License (revised)
Development	1.9.0	15-May-2008	BSD License (revised)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.9.0	Minor feature enhancements	15-May-2008 13:17
1.8.0	Minor feature enhancements	24-Sep-2007 17:32
1.7.2	Minor bugfixes	27-Nov-2006 21:27
1.7.1	Minor bugfixes	09-Nov-2006 14:07
1.7.0	Minor feature enhancements	19-Oct-2006 10:19
1.6.0	Minor feature enhancements	29-Jun-2006 10:17
1.5.1	Minor bugfixes	14-May-2006 11:12
1.5.0	Minor feature enhancements	16-Apr-2006 22:54
1.4.1	Minor bugfixes	20-Mar-2006 21:26
1.4.0	Minor feature enhancements	06-Mar-2006 18:22

 Comments

[»] Who needs sliced bread?
by Charles Duffy - Mar 31st 2004 15:37:11

Once, long ago, I poked at daemontools -- and saw that it was good, but the licensing was quite unworkable.

runit, while similar to daemontools, makes the occasional well-thought-out improvement here and there -- and unlike at least one other daemontools-inspired toolkit, is robust, stable and well-documented. Bravo!

FWIW, I maintain a runit RPM for my employer's use, and would be glad to share this should anyone be interested.

Thanks!

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