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cinit - a modern init system
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Nico Schottelius <nico-cinit@@@@schottelius.org>
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v0.1, for cinit-0.2.2, 2005-01-18
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:Author Initials: NS
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Introduction
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============
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cinit is a fast init system with dependency features and
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profile support. It was orientated on the design off Richard Gooch's
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need [0] and Felix von Leitner's minit[1]. Minit does not support real
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dependencies (you don't know whether the service you depend on really
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started) and the need concept is somehow slow (as seen in gentoo).
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In addition, minit needs libowfat and dietlibc, which may not be found
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on every Unix system.
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cinit main features:
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- portability: it should run on every Linux system (and it's quite easy
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to port it to other Unices)
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- true dependencies
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- parallel execution
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- highly customisable (see conf/*)
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- profile support (specify what services to start depending on the profile)
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Getting cinit
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=============
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This README is part of the source, so you should have it.
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If not, goto the homepage [2] and download the tar archive
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or get the lastest snapshot via git.
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Pre-Configuring
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===============
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If you want to fine tune cinit parameters, add different path names,
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change the DESTDIR, ... have a look at conf/*.
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Installing
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==========
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You can install cinit parallel to any other init-system, it won't
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kill other init's config nor /sbin/init, if it exists.
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You only have to tell your kernel to execute /sbin/cinit instead
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of /sbin/init.
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Everybody do:
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# make all install
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This will create /sbin/cinit.
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If /sbin/init does not exist, it will be linked to /sbin/cinit.
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If it's the first time you operate with cinit, you can also do:
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# make install-test
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This will populate /etc/cinit with a testing configuration,
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which is somehow minimalistic
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(mounting root r/w, starting gettys, setting hostname).
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Although this should work on most Linux systems, it's really
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minimalistic. Please configure your cinit installation yourself,
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see below how to do that.
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After configuring you need to tell your kernel to boot cinit instead
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of your current init system. How to do that depends on your system:
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Linux/LILO and Linux/yaboot (ppc):
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append="init=/sbin/cinit"
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Linux/grub1 and Linux/grub2:
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kernel <normal kernel specification> init=/sbin/cinit
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Configuring
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You'll have to configure /etc/cinit and add your existing services.
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Please read doc/configuring.cinit for details.
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Please read doc/FAO if there are still questions open.
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Please join #cLinux on irc.freenode.org if there are still questions open.
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There can be found some (currently only one) testing examples
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below samples/ (some I do use for testing, beware if you use it:
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It loads the dvorak keymapping at startup!).
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There are currently no tools to merge your existing init-system
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to cinit (like sysvinit-merge, bsd-merge or minit-merge) available.
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If someone cares and tries to do that, I would be happy to include
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the script(s).
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Additionally I would be thankful for tar-balls containing a complete
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replacement of $your_unix_init.
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Author, Contact, Bug reports, etc.
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==================================
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Nico Schottelius (nico-linux-cinit<<at>>schottelius [[dot]] org) is the
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author. Bug reports should be send to this address.
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The homepage of cinit is [2].
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References:
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===========
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[0]: need: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/boot-scripts/
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[1]: minit: http://www.fefe.de/minit/
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[2]: cinit: http://linux.schottelius.org/cinit/
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