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Frank Earl edited this page Jul 11, 2017 · 8 revisions

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So, what is runit?

From Gerrit Pape's original description:

"runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision, a replacement for sysvinit, and other init schemes. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, MacOSX, Solaris, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems."

If your OS choice is a POSIX-like OS at it's core, the odds are rather good that runit will work rather well as an init/services engine and framework for that OS.

(We're in the process of moving explanatory content around from the original site and out of the documentation, so pardon our dust here...the Wiki here will be the go-to place for online documentation, manpages, whys, wherefores, etc.)

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