[TriLUG] Repeat of my Runit Init Presentation

[Steve Litt via TriLUG]

No archive, but the course materials are here:

http://troubleshooters.com/linux/presentations/oclug_runit/

Perhaps, if  it would be popular for me to do so, I could give the same
presentation for TriLUG.

SteveT


shay walters via TriLUG said on Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:24:13 -0400

>The link in this message takes me to a "live" jitsi meeting that is no
>longer in progress. Is there an archive of this presentation that I
>can view after-the-fact?
>
>Thanks,
>-Shay
>
>On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 1:26 AM Steve Litt via TriLUG
><trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Saturday, 7/17/2021 at 10AM **CALIFORNIA TIME** I'll repeat my Runit
>> Init System presentation, at URL:
>>
>> https://meet.jit.si/OrangeCountyLinuxUserGroup
>>
>> This is the monthly meeting of the Orange County California Linux
>> User Group.
>>
>>
>> DETAILS
>> -------
>>
>> An init system is the software, the one and only software directly
>> called by the Kernel, to bring the system up to a workable condition.
>> Many init systems, including Runit, also provide tools to keep the
>> daemons running.
>>
>> Runit is amazingly simple and extremely powerful. Full daemon
>> supervision with auto-restart. Run levels, if desired. Trivial
>> daemonization of programs you write in C, Python, shellscript, or
>> almost anything, without silly double-forking. Extreme resilience.
>> Most who have used Runit for more than a month prefer it to systemd
>> or sysvinit.
>>
>> My presentation uses block diagrams (Mental Models) to showcase
>> Runit's inner workings to the extent that you can deploy Runit on
>> your computer and actually understand what you've done. I'll also
>> demonstrate a Linux Virtual Machine guest that inits with runit. I
>> hope to see you there.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
>> Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the
>> Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques