https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc
The OpenRC init system
https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc
Last synced: 9 months ago
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The OpenRC init system
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc
- Owner: OpenRC
- License: bsd-2-clause
- Created: 2013-04-13T23:21:59.000Z (over 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-18T19:04:01.000Z (9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-19T08:48:20.503Z (9 months ago)
- Language: C
- Homepage:
- Size: 7.42 MB
- Stars: 1,540
- Watchers: 57
- Forks: 257
- Open Issues: 170
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: HISTORY.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Support: support/deptree2dot/README.md
- Authors: AUTHORS
Awesome Lists containing this project
- awesome-embedded-linux - OpenRC - Dependency-based init system that works with the system-provided init program. (Init systems / Container Runtime Distributions)
README
OpenRC README
=============
OpenRC is a dependency-based init system that works with the
system-provided init program, normally `/sbin/init`.
## building and installing
OpenRC uses the [meson](http://mesonbuild.com) build system, so use the
usual methods for this build system to build and install.
## Notes
We don't support building a static OpenRC with PAM.
`PKG_PREFIX` should be set to where packages install to by default.
`LOCAL_PREFIX` should be set to where user maintained packages are.
Only set `LOCAL_PREFIX` if different from `PKG_PREFIX`.
`rc` and `rc.shutdown` are the hooks from the BSD init into OpenRC.
`devd.conf` is modified from FreeBSD to call `/etc/rc.devd` which is a
generic hook into OpenRC.
`inittab` is the same, but for SysVInit as used by most Linux distributions.
This can be found in the support folder.
Obviously, if you're installing this onto a system that does not use
OpenRC by default then you may wish to backup the above listed files,
remove them and then install so that the OS hooks into OpenRC.
If you are installing this onto a system which has separate / and /usr
file systems and expects / to be mounted before /usr, you will need to
make sure the appropriate pieces are installed on / by passing the
appropriate options to "meson setup" as follows:
```
$ meson setup \
--bindir /bin --libdir /lib64 --libexecdir /lib --sbindir /sbin \
build_path
```
## Discussions
We are testing [discussions](https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/discussions), so
feel free to open topics there.
## Reporting Bugs
Please report bugs on our [bug tracker](http://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues).
If you can contribute code , please feel free to do so by opening
[pull requests](https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pulls).
## IRC Channel
We have an official irc channel, #openrc on the libera network.
Please connect your irc client to irc.libera.chat and join #openrc on
that network.