Re: Fw: First time user experiences

From: Alexis <flexibeast_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:18:06 +1100

Just discovered that my below reply didn't actually go to the list
....

Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne_at_heuristicsystems.com.au> writes:

> I looked around
> and decided that s6 was the tool that I needed. I was
> dumbfounded by
> the complexity as I learn predominantly by example. The
> documentation,
> other than skarnet, that helped me to understand process
> management
> were
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/S6
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/S6-rc
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/S6_and_s6-rc-based_init_system

A while back i overhauled those "S6" and
"S6_and_s6-rc-based_init_system" pages:

  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Flexibeast/drafts/S6

i should probably follow up on whether there's any reason i can't
just move this draft into the main namespace.

i also wrote a guide to using s6 and s6-rc to provide user
services on OpenRC, with the intent of avoiding the majority of
the details and instead showing how straightforward it can be to
put together a service:

  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Flexibeast/guides/OpenRC_user_services_via_s6_and_s6-rc

Hopefully others put together something similar for an
s6-frontend-based setup, but if not, maybe i'll get there at some
point ....


Alexis.
Received on Wed Feb 25 2026 - 05:18:06 CET