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newspup_event Service Manager
I posted recently about investigations into "service managers",
in the context of starting and stopping services, such as CUPS, Samba
and SSH daemons, as dependencies are met or not met.
Unsatisfied with what is available, I have developed my own system.
Actually, this was in the back of my mind when I originally created pup_event, a background hotplugging and IPC messaging/synchronization system for Puppy circa 2013.
pup_event Service Manager starts and stops the services in
/etc/init.d, determined by dependencies rather than just alphabetical
order. It is a tiny implementation, in terms of very tiny resource usage
and tiny file size. Extreme efficiency, event-driven. Also very simple
to understand and use.
Documentation will be in upcoming EasyOS and Quirky releases, in
/usr/local/pup_event, however, I have also uploaded the doc files:
http://bkhome.org/docs/pup_event/pup_event-service-management.htm
http://bkhome.org/docs/pup_event/pup_event_ipc.htm
...that second link describes the pup_event IPC that I implemented in
Puppy Linux circa 2013, but recently it has been removed from the
woof-CE builds of Puppy.
So, this Service Manager will only be in the next releases of EasyOS
and Quirky. However, it will be possible to create a PET package for
other pups and puplets.