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The OpenRC init system

17 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 16 comments · first 2015-12-13 · latest 2026-06-29

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  1. …cgroup resource accounting are the real work, and OpenRC hands both back to you. Nope. [1][2] [0] < https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/29f620c16036586c39ec17... > [1] < https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/29f620c16036586c39ec17... >…
    comment by simoncion · 2026-06-29 · in Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
  2. …parallel service start and stop. I've been using it for... ten years now with no problem.) [0] < https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/29f620c16036586c39ec17... >
    comment by simoncion · 2026-06-29 · in Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian
  3. …in this "key, value" style, and it's obviously good to do so whenever reasonably possible. [2] < https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/service-script-... >
    comment by simoncion · 2025-08-19 · in SystemD Service Hardening
  4. …did they see sense and get rid of that? [0] < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44945789 > [1] < https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/commit/3ec2cc50261f37b76e0e... >
    comment by simoncion · 2025-08-19 · in SystemD Service Hardening
  5. …the manual for openrc-run at [1]. For supervision, check out the supervision guide at [2]. [0] < https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/service-script-... > [1] < https://man.uex.se/8/openrc-run > [2] <…
    comment by simoncion · 2025-08-18 · in SystemD Service Hardening
  6. …And a huge part of the design process is dealing with impact to other parts of the project. [0]: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/723/files
    comment by skydhash · 2025-05-13 · in A conversation about AI for science with Jason Pruet
  7. …The “undesired” or “controversial” part is whether programs should do it themselves or not. [0]: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/supervise-daemo...
    comment by aeldidi · 2024-10-08 · in Daemonization in Unix programs is probably about restarting programs
  8. …That's a very important feature with a lot of pitfalls and OpenRC is only beginning to get it ( https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/723 ).
    comment by BoingBoomTschak · 2024-09-16 · in S6 – Skarnet's small supervision suite
  9. Someone is actively working on user services, but it's not merged yet: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/723
    comment by WhyNotHugo · 2024-09-05 · in Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux
  10. …Don't file bugs about this unless you can supply patches that fix it without breaking other things! https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/ea310b2e580a25038f9592...
    comment by jiripospisil · 2024-09-05 · in Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux
  11. …I just wish it had any notion of logging stdout/stderr, or a way to manage daemons as a user. [1]: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/service-script-...
    comment by mid-kid · 2023-06-28 · in OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems
  12. …am working on a implementation of that for openrc for a while now, it's been working nicely so far: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/573
    comment by navi-desu · 2023-06-28 · in OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems
  13. …binary and their args.. just like systemd. The world is moving and sysvinit is left behind. [0] https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/service-script-...
    comment by theamk · 2022-10-29 · in Daemon – Writing and packaging system daemons
  14. …lines and we could be fancier but wc will do.) Now compare the same thing with OpenRC (git clone https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc ): $ wc `find . \( -name \*.c -o -name \*.h \) -print` [ ... ] 56 242 2209 ./src/rc/_usage.h 17263 53243…
    comment by ofubd8kc · 2021-06-16 · in Nasty Linux systemd root level security bug revealed and patched
  15. …7. http://smarden.org/runit/replaceinit.html 8. http://smarden.org/runit/useinit.html 9. https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/guide.md 10. http://skarnet.org/software/execline/ 11. http://skarnet.org/software/execline/execlineb.html…
    comment by chris_wot · 2016-05-02 · in Linux greybeards release beta of systemd-free Debian fork
  16. …items to think about. Here's OpenRC also mounting this filesystem read-write, since 2013: * https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/e52b5f59c22283b22e2b5a... * https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/commit/02a7d3573d551c5d169e... Here's a Debian…
    comment by JdeBP · 2016-02-01 · in No POST after rm -rf /
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    OpenRC – dependency-based init system
    story by yoshuaw · 2015-12-13 · 0 comments