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@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ OpenRC NEWS This file will contain a list of notable changes for each release. Note the information in this file is in reverse order. +## OpenRC 0.42 + +openrc-shutdown now has the ability to shut down sysvinit-based systems. + +A guide has been added for migrating systems using another init system +to openrc-init. + ## OpenRC 0.41. This version adds the ability to format the output of rc-status when diff --git a/init-guide.md b/init-guide.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f487e331 --- /dev/null +++ b/init-guide.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +# OpenRC init process guide + +OpenRC now includes an init process which can be used on Linux systems +in place of sysvinit. + +## migrating a live system to openrc-init + +Configuring a live system to use this init process is very +straight-forward, but the steps must be completed in this order. + +* have your boot loader add "init=/sbin/openrc-init" to the kernel command line + +The details of how to do this will vary from distro to distro, so they are +out of scope for this document. + +* Install gettys into the runlevels where you need them. + +If you are using the provided /etc/init.d/agetty script,, you should +first create symlinks in /etc/init.d to it for the ports where you +want gettys to run, e.g. the following will work if you want gettys on +tty1-tty6. + +``` +# cd /etc/init.d +# for x in tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6; do + ln -snf agetty agetty.$x + done +``` + +Once this is done, use ```rc-update``` as normal to install the agetty +services in the appropriate runlevels. + +* Reboot your system. + +At this point you are running under openrc-init, and you should use +openrc-shutdown to handle shutting down, powering off, rebooting etc. + +## optional sysvinit compatibility + +If you build and install OpenRC with MKSYSVINIT=yes, you will build and install +wrappers that make openrc-init compatible with sysvinit -- you will have +commands like "halt" "shutdown" "reboot" and "poweroff". + +If you want this functionality on a live system, you should first +migrate the system to openrc-init, remove sysvinit, then rebuild and +install this package with MKSYSVINIT=yes. + +package. +migrating your system to openrc-init. + |