init

Dinit is designed to work on POSIXy operating systems such as Linux and OpenBSD. It is written in C++ and uses the Dasynq event handling library, which was written especially to support Dinit. Source code: https://github.com/davmac314/dinit Support files for launching dinit from /etc/rc.d/ on...

Hey all, I am pretty new to FreeBSD. I have been experimenting with it in some qemu vms. One thing that has confused me is that with the qcow2 releases I have (amd64 and riscv64) there are many duplicate lines in /etc/rc.conf $ cat /mnt/etc/rc.conf hostname="freebsd" ifconfig_DEFAULT="DHCP...

Hi Forum, i tried the last days to bring up a mips installation of freebsd in qemu. I went with different receipes, but none of them worked. I followed the steps here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuRecipes#mips I also tried different archs like mips64, setting up an image with qemu-image and...

If spare time is available, I like to read vermaden 's valuable news. Specifically, this week's installment here. What got my attention was the subject InitWare (systemd fork) Runs on OpenBSD for First Time. A quick look at the github site gives no reasoning behind this. Further investigation...

Hi, I've switched over to FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE completely a few days ago. Everything runs great and I now have suspend working but with two issues: 1. If I suspend my PC with DSBmixer still running (I'm using Xfce 4), the init system endlessly waits for it to quit. I have to hold the power...

This, from a different discussion, reminded me that I wanted to ask a question ages ago, but never got around to asking. A long time ago I did a basic UNIX course, on System V I think it was, and the instructor said "do a sync before you shutdown, this will ensure disk cache is written out"...

I'm developing an init system for many POSIX/POSIX-like systems and after reviewing part of the FreeBSD Architecture Handbook as well as part of the kernel source it appears that upon calling the init binary that it's guaranteed that root will already be mounted. I just want to verify if this...