commit af9adaf39b070fe3d3e8d56159537ca5260b919d
parent a50d210dc2d70eb24b36d5cd82b6e6dc694e90dc
Author: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:17:02 +0000
minor.
Diffstat:
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/benefits.html b/doc/benefits.html
@@ -45,9 +45,11 @@ By default a service is defined to be up, that means, if the service daemon
dies, it will be restarted.
Of course you can <a href="runsvctrl.8.html">tell runsv</a> otherwise.
<p>
-You don't have such a control interface with sysv init for example.
+You don't have such a control interface with <i>sysv init</i> for example.
Using the control interface to send signals to the service daemon saves a lot
of extra (non trivial) work to reliably find out the daemon's process id.
+Also <i>sysv init</i> only supports 'respawning' of services started from
+<tt>inittab</tt>.
<hr>
<a name="state"><h3>Clean process state</h3></a>
@@ -56,7 +58,7 @@ service is activated for the first time, reactivated, or simply restarted.
This means that the service always is started with the same environment,
resource limits, open file descriptors, and controlling terminals.
<p>
-You don't necessarily have that with sysv init scripts for example.
+You don't necessarily have that with <i>sysv init</i> scripts for example.
It requires a carefully written init script that reliably cleans up and sets
the initial process state before starting the service daemon.
This adds even more complexity to the init script in comparison with a run
@@ -80,8 +82,8 @@ After rebooting the system this shows up on the screen:
The <tt>food</tt> program is installed in <tt>/opt/foo/bin/</tt>. When
starting the service for the first time using the init script, the
<tt>PATH</tt> environment variable contained <tt>/opt/foo/bin</tt>.
-After reboot init started the service using the init script, but with a
-different value for the <tt>PATH</tt> variable, not containing
+After reboot <tt>init</tt> started the service using the init script, but
+with a different value for the <tt>PATH</tt> variable, not containing
<tt>/opt/foo/bin</tt>.
Of course the init script should have set <tt>PATH</tt> before starting the
daemon; the problem is that it worked in the first place, and that the error
diff --git a/package/CHANGES b/package/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
runit 0.8.0
-Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:31:21 +0100
+Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:17:34 +0100
* doc/benefits.html: new.
* doc/index.html, doc/upgrade.html: adapt.
* etc/*/1, etc/*/3, etc/*/ctrlaltdel: set permissions on the magic files
