On 25/02/2016 15:47, Steve Litt wrote:
> Could somebody, in one or two sentences, tell me the difference between
> s6 vs s6-init?
> I'm not looking for references to big old documents: I'm looking for
> one or two sentences telling me the difference.
Still, big old documents have all the information you need, and more:
the first lines of
http://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/why.html would
answer your question.
s6 is a process supervisor. It manages daemons.
s6-rc is a service manager. It manages the global state of a machine:
what service is up, what service is down, with dependencies between
services, and "services" being implemented by either a daemon or a
one-shot script.
s6-rc is a management layer running *on top of* s6. It uses the s6
infrastructure to do its job, but this job is not the same at all.
--
Laurent
Received on Thu Feb 25 2016 - 15:02:11 UTC