How to setup and use "Runit" init-system on Ubuntu?

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at ubuntu.com
Fri Sep 23 02:39:50 UTC 2022


On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 03:31:57AM +0200, Paul Gerdes wrote:
> Could someone give me information on how to set up and use Runit on Ubuntu
> please? Or maybe some info on how to Install Ubuntu with Runit?
> I couldn't find a Guide for Runit on Ubuntu. My OS is Jammy (22.04).

> The Runit Packages are available in Ubuntu Repos. Together with
> 'init-system-helpers'.
> (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=runit&searchon=names)
> (https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/init-system-helpers)

Use of runit as an init system is not supported on Ubuntu.  You can install
runit to supervise services that specifically integrate with it, but you
cannot use it as PID 1.

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