cyberd

cyberd is an init process for HeylelOS.

Why?

Primarily because as you're certainly aware, systemd is controversial. And for all those reasons, I decided to replace it. The main reason is because systemd's architecture is against the simple principle of "each process its task" behind the UNIX philosophy.

Secondly, why not take sysvinit, or another one? Because I don't agree with the notion of runlevels. A very good idea at the time it was created, but now pretty useless. When runlevels where created, users chose between a graphical or a terminal based boot. But now users don't care anymore and just boot in one mode. Or the bootloader does the job. So this init system just loads daemons and allows users to start, stop, signal and end them.

Features

cyberd can:

• Start daemons, with command line arguments, custom uid, gid, umask and working directory. At cyberd load, configuration reload or a depending on a previous exit status.
• Stop daemons, by sending them a SIGTERM or a custom signal.
• Reload daemons, by sending a SIGHUP or a custom signal.
• End daemons, by sending them a SIGKILL signal.
• Poweroff, Halt, Reboot, Suspend kernel.
• Create custom connection endpoints.

For further details, you can read the manual pages or even available tests for examples of simple daemons configurations.

Configure, build and install

Meson is used to configure, build and install binaires and documentations:

meson setup build
meson compile -C build
meson install -C build

Documentation

The documentation is built through the doc target, if the required tools are available.

meson compile -C build doc