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s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process
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supervision (a.k.a service supervision), in the line of daemontools
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and runit, as well as various operations on processes and daemons. It
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is meant to be a toolbox for low-level process and service
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administration, providing different sets of independent tools that can
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be used within or without the framework, and that can be assembled
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together to achieve powerful functionality with a very small amount of
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code.
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Examples of things you can do by assembling together several programs
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provided by s6 - besides process supervision:
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- syslogd functionality, using much less resources than the traditional
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syslogd.
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- Reliable service readiness notification, which is the basis for
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service dependency management.
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- Controlled privileged gain as with sudo, without using any suid
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programs.
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- The useful parts of socket activation without having to change
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application code or link servers against any specific library, and
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without having to switch to any specific init system.
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NOTE:
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Upstream recommends building skarnet.org softwares with static libraries
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as most of skarnet.org softwares are small enough that using shared
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libraries are generally not worth using. Therefore, by default, shared
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libraries are not built and binaries are linked against the static
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versions of the skarnet.org libraries.
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If you want to also build the shared libraries, pass BUILD_SHARED=yes
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environment variable to the SlackBuild script like below:
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BUILD_SHARED=yes ./s6.SlackBuild
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Similarly, to avoid building the static libraries, you can pass
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BUILD_STATIC=no to the script. For example, to only build the shared
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libraries and not the static ones, you can do something like:
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BUILD_SHARED=yes BUILD_STATIC=no ./s6.SlackBuild
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If you just want to build and use skarnet.org softwares, building only
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the static libraries should be sufficient.
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If you want the binaries to be linked against the shared versions of the
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skarnet.org libraries, pass LINK_SHARED=yes to the script.
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