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<title>s6-rc: FAQ</title>
<meta name="Description" content="s6-rc: FAQ" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="s6-rc faq frequently asked questions" />
- <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://skarnet.org/default.css" /> -->
+ <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//skarnet.org/default.css" /> -->
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<body>
<p>
<a href="index.html">s6-rc</a><br />
-<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br />
-<a href="http://skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a>
+<a href="//skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br />
+<a href="//skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a>
</p>
<h1> s6-rc: Frequently Asked Questions </h1>
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ file.
Using the filesystem as a key-value store is
a good technique to avoid parsing, and skarnet.org packages do it
everywhere: for instance,
-<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-envdir.html">s6-envdir</a>
+<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-envdir.html">s6-envdir</a>
uses the file name as a key and the file contents as a value.
The s6-rc-compile source format is just another instance of this
technique.
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ time you compile a service database, you could run:
<li> When you compile a new service database, always compile it to a
unique name, preferrably in the same directory as your current compiled
database. You can for instance use a TAI64N timestamp, obtained by
-<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-clock.html">s6-clock</a>,
+<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-clock.html">s6-clock</a>,
to create such a name:
<pre>
stamp=`s6-clock`
@@ -218,14 +218,14 @@ new database will be used on the next boot, atomically update the link:
s6-ln -nsf compiled-$stamp /etc/s6-rc/compiled
</pre>
The use of the
-<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-ln.html">s6-ln</a>
+<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-ln.html">s6-ln</a>
utility is recommended, because the
<a href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ln.html">ln</a>
standard actually <em>forbids</em> an atomic replacement, so utilities that
follow it to the letter, for instance, <tt>ln</tt> from GNU coreutils, cannot
be atomic: they first remove the old link, then create the new one. If you
do not have
-<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-ln.html">s6-ln</a>,
+<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-ln.html">s6-ln</a>,
you need to perform an unintuitive workaround to get POSIX-compliant tools to
do the right thing:
<tt>ln -sf compiled-$stamp /etc/s6-rc/compiled/compiled &amp;&amp;
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ using OpenRC </li>
You can now run compile your s6-rc service database, and use the
<a href="s6-rc.html">s6-rc</a> engine as your service manager.
Transitions will use your original init scripts, and the supervision
-features of <a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a> will
+features of <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a> will
not be used, but you will get proper dependency tracking and
easy state changes.
</p>
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ bundle that contains nothing at all!
<p>
In your boot script (<tt>/etc/rc.init</tt>, for instance, if
you're using
-<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/">s6-linux-init</a>),
+<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/">s6-linux-init</a>),
after invoking
<a href="s6-rc-init.html">s6-rc-init</a>, just ask
<a href="s6-rc.html">s6-rc</a> to start the set of services you want up
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ addressed by <em>Unix distributions</em>.
</p>
<p>
- Like the rest of <a href="http://skarnet.org/software/">skarnet.org
+ Like the rest of <a href="//skarnet.org/software/">skarnet.org
software</a>, s6-rc aims to provide <em>mechanism, not policy</em>:
it is OS-agnostic and distribution-agnostic. Providing boot scripts,
or anything of this kind, would go against this principle; it is