Hello,
I'm planning to set up a router on an old x86 box with a couple of
NIC's for the fun/experience of it. I'm looking at using one of the
BSD's as the operating system, since I haven't used those before.
I started looking at how to configure daemons/services on OpenBSD
and FreeBSD and am a little surprised at what I found. As far as I
can tell, OpenBSD's rc assumes that services will background
themselves and does no supervision at all. It seems like FreeBSD's
daemon(8) has some supervision capabilities with the -r flag, but
it is unclear to me how widely used that is.
Given the apparently poor state of supervision, I'm considering
using s6 when I configure this system.
In searching, I found some messages on the Skaware lists about
running s6 as PID 1 on FreeBSD; has that work been published anywhere?
I'm not sure if I want to go so far as replacing PID 1 right out
of the gate, but having some existing service directories would be
nice.
Have I correctly understood how daemons/services work on the BSD's?
If not, what am I missing? Are the daemons included with the
distributions so incredibly stable that they don't need supervision
in order to keep the system functional?
Finally, if you wanted to create a router that you could (metaphorically)
put in a closet and forget about for 5 years, what approach would
you take? My initial thought was OpenBSD + s6, but I worry now that
there could be an impedance mismatch between these systems.
Any thoughts people have on this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Scott Colby
Received on Sat Apr 09 2022 - 07:38:56 CEST