Suzaku

A clean init system using s6 as the process supervisor.

Why?

I wasn't happy with other init systems, So I decided to write my own.

Features:

• Clean, readable scripts.
  • You can very easily learn from reading the code.
• Fast.
  • If you have dash installed, the boot times are very small.

Structure:

At boot, sinit calls takeoff, which mounts the pseudo-filesystems, checks the filesystems, mounts those, starts eudev and syncs the system clock.

When taking off is done, The system enters the flight stage. The script mounts swap, does some configuration, and starts s6, which starts the services you configured.

When you want to shutdown, the system must land. This script kills the processes, unmounts the partitions, and then shuts down the system or reboots based on what was requested to sinit.

Why this naming?

Because it's fun!

Installation:

For now, Suzaku is still undergoing bug testing, but you can install it and use it!

Dependencies: toybox, s6, eudev, util-linux (for now, I'm looking to replace this with toybox)

The default setup is this:

1. Copy takeoff, flight, land and services to /etc/suzaku.
2. Install pavo as /sbin/pavo
3. Compile sinit with the provided header. (sinit.config.h)
4. Edit the config to your desire.

Things to do

1. It needs to be made more generic! For now, I pushed a configuration that matches what I use on my computer.
2. Add more services.
3. Extend pavo so it's able to enable services.
4. Make a makefile.