Introduction

BTRunit is a lightweight service manager for use on Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems.

History

Runit was originally written by Gerrit Pape at smarden.org, based on DJB's original daemontools service supervisor. This repo continues where Gerrit left off.

Improvements

1. All code is formatted for safety and clarity.
2. Legacy K&R C is converted to ANSI C.
3. All type warnings and signed/unsigned warnings are fixed.
4. The build system is migrated to GNU Autotools. Yes, this is an improvement. Just ask your local distro packager.
5. Folder directories are set at configration time instead of hard-coded. This lets you compile Btrunit with an alternate $sysconfdir, which means you can build it and use it even if you're not root.
6. Cross-compilation works. Legacy Runit's build system used a lot of runtime checks during the build process, which prevented any kind of cross-compilation.

Installation

If you're installing from a release tarball, just ./configure, make, and make install. If you're installing from a repo checkout, run autogen.sh first.

Requirements

To build BTRunit from a release tarball, you'll need:

1. Make
2. A C compiler
3. Libc
4. That's pretty much it

To build from the repo, you'll also need m4, automake, and autoconf.