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dinit-0.20.0

service monitoring / "init" system

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Description

"Dinit" is a service supervisor with dependency support. Specifically, Dinit can launch multiple services in parallel, with dependency management (i.e. if one service's operation depends on another, the latter service will be started first). It can monitor the process corresponding to a service, and re-start it if it dies, and it can do this in an intelligent way, first "rolling back" all dependent services, and restarting them when their dependencies are satisfied. However, the precise nature of dependency relations between services is highly configurable.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/dinit
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Edd Barrett <edd@openbsd.org>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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