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commit 15af0540e9aa2676df0e69d078481ad12dc10f20
parent 4dbbb46c6af480da7a4a7f5d7c59f6b571c69b3f
Author: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:08:27 +0000

mention supervision list.
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diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html @@ -27,17 +27,22 @@ Dependencies and runlevels</a> <a href="http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html">daemontools</a> package to create a replacement for <a href="ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/sysvinit/">sysvinit</a>. -<i>runit</i> runs on <b>Debian GNU/Linux sid/woody</b>, -<b>OpenBSD 2.9</b>, <b>FreeBSD 4.4</b>. <i>runit</i> reportedly runs on -<b>FreeBSD 4.3</b>, and can easily be adapted to other unix operating -systems. If <i>runit</i> runs for you on any other operating system or -linux distribution, please let me know. +<i>runit</i> runs on <b>Debian GNU/Linux</b>, <b>OpenBSD 2.9</b>, +<b>FreeBSD 4.4</b>. <i>runit</i> reportedly runs on <b>FreeBSD 4.3</b>, +and can easily be adapted to other unix operating systems. If <i>runit</i> +runs for you on any other operating system or linux distribution, please +let me know. <p> <b>Warning:</b> Replacing <i>sysvinit</i> or <i>init</i> can cause the system's boot to fail. Make sure you are able to recover and repair your system, for example if you run a boot loader, it should be able to pass <tt>init=/bin/sh</tt> to the kernel. <hr> +<i>runit</i> is discussed on the <tt>&lt;supervision@list.skarnet.org&gt;</tt> +mailing list. To subscribe send an empty email to +<a href="mailto:supervision-subscribe@list.skarnet.org"> +&lt;supervision-subscribe@list.skarnet.org&gt;</a>. +<hr> The command <a href="runit.8.html">runit</a> is intended to run as Unix process no 1, it is automatically started by the <a href="runit-init.8.html">runit-init</a> <tt>/sbin/init</tt>-replacement @@ -80,11 +85,11 @@ Dependencies and runlevels</a> for an example, the amount of code in process no 1 should be minimal. <hr> <b><i>runit</i> in use</b>: I replaced <i>sysvinit</i> with <i>runit</i> -on several server systems and a laptop, all running Debian/GNU Linux woody -or potato, some months ago and did not encounter any problems. Of course -also the <tt>smarden.org</tt> content server is running with <i>runit</i> -as process no 1. This is from the second machine where I replaced -<i>sysvinit</i> with <i>runit</i>: +on several server systems and a laptop running Debian/GNU Linux sarge, woody +and potato, and did not encounter any problems. Of course also the +<tt>smarden.org</tt> content server is running with <i>runit</i> as process +no 1. This is from the second machine where I replaced <i>sysvinit</i> with +<i>runit</i>: <pre> # strings /proc/1/exe |grep Id &#36;Id: runit.c,v 1.5 2001/12/30 16:28:53 pape Exp &#36; @@ -130,7 +135,7 @@ as process no 1. This is from the second machine where I replaced |-2*[supervise---socklog] `-supervise---uncat </pre> -This is from a more busy system: +This is a more busy system: <pre> # strings /proc/1/exe |grep Id &#36;Id: runit.c,v 1.6 2002/01/29 18:56:36 pape Exp &#36;