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Runit runs just fine on top of FreeBSD and OSX (and Should work on OpenSolaris / OpenIndinana, though i don't have personal experience). Nothing in cast itself

• ssmoot 15y ago
  I don't suppose you have any hints for getting runit installed/running on FreeBSD? There's a runit port, but it doesn't auto-start that I've been able to figure out and I never have found any real documentation on it. Back to Cast though, the "create instance redis0" example is basically just creating a runit script? Understood that "just" covers a lot, including the auth, agent, etc. But the thing it's actually doing on the server (after building/installing the requested package) is adding a runit script right?
  • russell_h 15y ago
    You're pretty much correct, but the building/installing step is responsible for a lot more Cast code than the runit part is. When you run "create instance redis0" the high level steps are: 1. Create a new directory structure in which to install redis. 2. Copy all the redis files into a version-specific location in that structure. 3. Process any templates (for config files, etc) that were provided. 4. Create symlinks from the version-specific install location into a version-independent data root. 5. Create various symlinks for tracking the 'current' version, etc. 6. Create the runit script. I might be forgetting a step somewhere in there, but you get the idea. edit: fix list formatting