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diff --git a/doc/s6-svscan-1.html b/doc/s6-svscan-1.html index 64ef6b1..e58c54a 100644 --- a/doc/s6-svscan-1.html +++ b/doc/s6-svscan-1.html @@ -374,17 +374,20 @@ initialization tasks with the guarantee that s6-svscan is running. <p> This whole page may sound very theoretical, dry, wordy, and hard to grasp without a live example to try things on; unfortunately, s6 cannot provide -live examples without becoming system-specific. However, it provides a whole -set of script skeletons for you to edit and make your own working init. +live examples without becoming system-specific. </p> <p> - The <tt>examples/ROOT</tt> subdirectory in the s6 distribution contains -the relevant parts of a small root filesystem that works under Linux and follows -all that has been explained here. In every directory, a <tt>README</tt> file -has been added, to sum up what this directory does. You can copy those files -and modify them to suit your needs; if you have the proper software installed, -and the right configuration, some of them might even work verbatim. + However, the +<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/">s6-linux-init</a> +package provides you with the +<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/s6-linux-init-maker">s6-linux-init-maker</a> +command, which produces a set of working scripts, including a script +that is suitable as <tt>/sbin/init</tt>, for you to study and edit. +You can <em>run</em> the <tt>s6-linux-init-maker</tt> command even +on non-Linux systems: it will produce scripts that do not work as +is for another OS, but can still be used for study and as a basis for +a working stage 1 script. </p> </body> |