Carbs Linux uses busybox-runit by default, but the repository additionally has the original runit and sysmgr. You can install either with kiss b runit; kiss i runit or kiss b sysmgr; kiss i sysmgr.

runit

Enabling a Service

ln -sf /etc/sv/acpid /var/service

Disabling a Service

unlink /var/service/acpid

Starting a Service

sv start acpid

Stopping a Service

sv stop acpid

For more information refer to the sv --help output. Also check out the sv(8) manual page if you have installed the runit package.

sysmgr

sysmgr is POSIX-sh service supervisor written by me. Its usage resembles runit. The biggest difference is that sysmgr uses service files instead of directories with run scripts inside.

svctl

svctl is the equivalant of sv for sysmgr. You can run the above commands for runit and use svctl instead of sv. Those would be as follows.

Enabling a Service

ln -sf /etc/sysmgr/acpid /var/sysmgr

Disabling a Service

unlink /var/sysmgr/acpid

Starting a Service

svctl start acpid

Stopping a Service

svctl stop acpid

Switching from runit

Switching from runit is fairly easy. You can run the following commands to get started with sysmgr.

# Create the directories if you haven't yet
mkdir -p /var/sysmgr /etc/sysmgr

# Copy all of the run scripts to /etc/sysmgr
set -- /etc/sv/*
for service; do cp "$service/run" "/etc/sysmgr/${service##*/}" ; done

# Link all enabled services
set -- /var/service/*
for service; do ln -sf /etc/sysmgr/${service##*/} /var/sysmgr ; done

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