This patch reverts back to the progress/status behavior of Finit < v3.0
because this is what most users expect, including the maintainer. The
resulting code and configure script is a lot simpler to understand and
maintain:
- No more --enable-progress or --enable-progress-classic configure
flags. Instead a progress_style variable in helpers.c that can
be changed at compile time for those that really need it.
- No more 'splash' kernel commnand line option. This turned out to
be *very* confusing to many users who believed it was some sort of
graphical splash screen à la Plymouth.
Also, when Finit debug is enabled we now have a global 'debug' flag
which now alo controls if klogctl() should be called to prevent the
kernel logs to the console or not.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
In the v4 bump we removed tar.xz archives in favor of bringing back
tar.gz. This was a bit premature and could easily cause unnecessary
headaches downstream.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
The SysV API compatibility layer gives too little value to be worth
the effort of maintaining it. Users are encouraged to use the
`initctl` tool instead.
Signed-off-by: Jacques de Laval <jacques@de-laval.se>
This patch removes the built-in inetd support from Finit. We recommend
using an external inetd instead, e.g. xinetd.
If you liked the feature set our inetd provided; filtering per interface
and port redirection, then please let us know or use the code in this
patch (MIT licensed) to recreate it. We are open to reintroducing it,
but then as a stand-alone daemon like the bundled watchdogd and getty.
So long for now, old friend.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
Planned changes will directly change the behavior of conditions, and
instead of having to implement compatibility wrappers and further
complicate the code, we've taken the decision to go for v4 directly.
This allows us to also rip out the complex inetd support.
Other changes in this commit:
- Revert back to .tar.gz distribution archives, by popular demand
- Add .sha256 checksum for .tar.gz archive
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
As documented in the kernel docs and systemd[1], the default system
console is the first listed in /sys/class/tty/console/active, which
is the reverse order of console= given on the kernel cmdline.
Some distros don't have console= on their default command line in
their bootloader, e.g. Alpine Linux, some multiple, e.g Buildroot.
Instead of relying on the value given at configure time we probe
sysfs and open all (at most three) consoles listed. This way we
at least get the default console for our progress output.
- drop old --with-console from configure script
- drop /proc/cmdline fishing in favor of sysfs
- replace CONSOLE from configure with new console()
[1]: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
- Changing the GNU defaults is messy. The best way is to leave them
alone and let the user set their install locations themselves.
- Show --exec-prefix in config Summary, that's where the binaries go
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch removes the --enable-rw-rootfs build flag. Like OpenRC we
now check /etc/fstab instad; if `/` is listed *and* doesn't have the
`ro` flag set, we remount / read-write.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
The logit tool is not just used by scripts and such, when logger is
absent. It is also used by Finit internally to redirect logging of
services to syslog and/or log file, with log rotation.
This patch reverts the default to enabled. Someone explicitly has
to disable logit now to get less functionality.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
`--disable-logit` at configure time means redirecting stdout from a
service to a file is completely disabled. Fallback to `logger` can
not be guaranteed to provide log file rotation, so all logs will be
sent to syslog instead. In case logger is also missing, a simple
redirect using fork() + syslog() is used as fallback.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
Since sysklogd now ships an excellent enhanced logger tool there is no
need for Finit to provide its own tool for the same purpose by default.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
In cases where you have multiple events pending in the cache and some
event may cause later ones, already sent by the kernel to userspace,
to be deleted the pointer returned to the event loop for this later
event may be deleted.
There are two ways around this (accessing deleted memory); 1) use this
function to initialize your event loop and set maxevents to 1, 2) use a
free list in you application that you garbage collect at intervals
relevant to your application.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
In massively parallel builds we've seen finit fail in the install phase
of the contrib section with:
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/bob/jenkins/workspace/WeOS-feature_5.x_igmp-mld-snooping/staging/share/doc/finit/contrib/alpine/finit.d/getty.conf': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/bob/jenkins/workspace/WeOS-feature_5.x_igmp-mld-snooping/staging/share/doc/finit/contrib/alpine/finit.d/keymap.conf': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/bob/jenkins/workspace/WeOS-feature_5.x_igmp-mld-snooping/staging/share/doc/finit/contrib/alpine/finit.d/modules.conf': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/bob/jenkins/workspace/WeOS-feature_5.x_igmp-mld-snooping/staging/share/doc/finit/contrib/alpine/finit.d/klogd.conf': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/bob/jenkins/workspace/WeOS-feature_5.x_igmp-mld-snooping/staging/share/doc/finit/contrib/alpine/finit.d/syslogd.conf': No such file or directory
This patch is a countermeasure since fixing the root cause may take a
while (to be prioritized).
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
Automatic redirection of output was introduced in v3.0 and for the
upcoming v3.1 a configure option was added to disable it.
By popular demand this patch flips the default. One now has to
explicitly enable this feature to get redirection.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch adds a rescue (revovery) mode to Finit. Simply add `rescue`
to the kernel cmdline at boot and the following steps at bootstrap will
be skipped:
- Load of services/run/task/etc in /etc/finit.conf + /etc/finit.d/*.conf
- fsck of filesystems in /etc/fstab
- Remount of / to read-write
- Mount of all filesystems in /etc/fstab
- swapon
- A few plugin hooks:
- HOOK_ROOTFS_UP
- HOOK_MOUNT_ERROR
- HOOK_BASEFS_UP
- `runparts DIR`
- /etc/rc.local
Instead of loading /etc/finit.conf and /etc/finit.d/*.conf Finit loads
the file /lib/finit/rescue.conf, which can be overridden by the operator
if needed. If this file is removed (or lost), Finit falls back to start
a simple root shell, without any login.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
The /lib/finit/plugins path is as of this patch not longer possible to
change. Use --prefix or --libdir instead to change the leading path.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch makes it possible to control the default redirection of
(misbehaving) services output to /dev/null. With this disabled,
a service may write to its stdout/stderr and mess up the console.
By default all service/run/tasks stdout/stderr is redirected.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
It is strongly recommended to instead use the service stanza to start
XDM/GDM, or use startx after a regular login.
Note: the `user NAME` setting was always reserved for use with startx
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch disables console heading and bootup progress messages by
default. Use --enable-progress to get the old behavior back, or try
the new HOOK_BANNER and HOOK_SVC_UP to run a custom progress.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
This patch implemements a new feature of libite v1.9.1, whichp(), which
instead of fexist() that requires an absolute path, searches $PATH.
For reference, see issue #69 and PRs #70 and #72.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
Jacques de Laval