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Show HN: Beginning, a work-in-progress init system

by Somasis on 9/7/15, 6:08 AM with 5 comments

by Somasis on 9/7/15, 6:09 AM
Hi HN, I've been working on this for a while and I was looking for some feedback on it. I've been using it on my laptop, servers, etc. without issues for a few months.
by JdeBP on 9/10/15, 4:09 PM
```
  #!/bin/bash
  #!/bin/bash
  #!/bin/bash
```
One of the major improvements to System 5 rc on Linux in the past couple of decades came not from adjusting configuration mechanisms (e.g. r2d2, file-rc) or helper script function libraries. It came from the simple realization that the Bourne Again shell was a quite heavyweight choice for running a lot of non-interactive scripts.
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
* https://wiki.debian.org/BootProcessSpeedup#Using_a_faster_sy...
* http://initscripts-ng.alioth.debian.org/soc2006-bootsystem/b...
by JdeBP on 9/10/15, 4:49 PM
```
   HWCLOCK_TZ=$(readlink /etc/localtime | cut -d/ -f5-)
```
One of the improvements to BSD /etc/rc.conf{,.local} pioneered by OpenBSD 5.6 is that they are no longer shell scripts, but are simple lists of name=value pairs, that can thus be parsed, used, and maintained by things other than just shell script interpreters.
OpenBSD also gained an rcctl command, where one could run (say) "rcctl enable salt_master" and it would adjust the rc.conf files to enable the salt_master service. nosh has a shim for it.
* http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade56.html#OtherChanges
* http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140820090351