Hi all,
I've been delighted to find and use Obarun; now using it on my daily desktop and on my media center. More than the fact that it is
not using systemd, I like the fact that it
is using the s6 suite. Systemd prompted me to read a little more about init systems, and I came across s6, which seemed to get things right. But I wouldn't know where to begin building a fully functioning system. So thanks Eric and all who have contributed to the 66 tools and Obarun!
Now I am looking to augment my systems and write my own services. But I'm not clear on the difference between a 'classic' service and a 'longrun' service. The web page at
http://web.obarun.org/software/66/frontend.html links to a description of an s6 service directory for a 'classic' service, and s6-rc-compile for a 'longrun' service. But I don't understand what this means.
The only other mention I find is in that same description for a
66 frontend file that hints:
Note: If you don't care about dependencies between services or if you don't need specific tasks or alternative configuration to get the daemon running, “classic” is the best pick.
But this doesn't really explain what the difference is. Could you shed any more light on this?