watchman/sinit -- init system

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(feel free to move this to /usr/bin or wherever this is best suited)

fbt's watchman with sinit and spark-rc:

Stuff you need:

http://tools.suckless.org/sinit
https://github.com/fbt/spark-rc
https://github.com/fbt/watchman
https://github.com/fbt/watchman-services

On Arch I also needed sysvinit-tools-adds (for killall5). Both this package and the others are available from the AUR.

Configuration:

sinit: config.h, change rcinitcmd (assumes spark-rc is in /bin)

Code: Select all

static char *const rcinitcmd[] = { "/bin/rc", NULL };
static char *const rcrebootcmd[] = { "/bin/rc", "reboot", NULL };
static char *const rcpoweroffcmd[] = { "/bin/rc", "poweroff", NULL };

Install sinit with make (install), then watchman. Add the init scripts to /etc/watchman/init.d (path is adjustable in watchman config.mk), and modify /etc/rc.conf. Finally append init=/bin/sinit (or /usr/local/bin/sinit) to the kernel command line.

Haven't noticed major problems so far, except I messed up GRUB (and had to manually add " rw "), and some unexpected behaviour with reboots.

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Dropping by to show off a few things.

Arch with much the same setup on my work PC:

If you're observant enough, you can probably tell that I don't have e?udev.
Yep, that's a *dev-less system, not even mdev. Turned out to be easy enough
to substitute those for a few simple scripts :)

Also, that's not a minimal system for the sake of being minimal. That's my
work desktop.

I'll write a proper guide on how to fbtize your arch at some point.
Would probably need a name for my arch spin huh.

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Also watchman on FreeBSD:

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There is a guide now.

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And here's a very minimal install:

Show it to people who claim that Arch is bloated :)