Editing OpenRC

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==Introduction==
OpenRC is a dependency-based ''init system'' that works with the system-provided init program, normally ''/sbin/init''. Currently, it does not have an init program of its own. It does not function as a replacement for the /sbin/init file. 

There are  105 [https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/graphs/contributors contributors on GitHub].

GhostBSD/FreeBSD provides for booting from both the older MBR standard and the newer GUID Partition Table (GPT).
Once the kernel boot process is finished, the kernel passes control to the user process [https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=init&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release-ports init(8)], which is located at ''/sbin/init''.  The ''/boot/defaults/loader.conf'' states as GhostBSD defaults: ''rc_system="openrc".''

The loader is the final stage of the three-stage bootstrap process. It is located on the file system, usually as ''/boot/loader.''

The loader will read ''/boot/loader.rc,'' which by default reads in ''/boot/defaults/loader.conf'' which sets reasonable defaults for variables and reads ''/boot/loader.conf'' for local changes to those variables. loader.rc then acts on these variables, loading whichever modules and kernel are selected.

==Installation==

OpenRC requires GNU make.

Once you have GNU Make installed, the default OpenRC installation can be executed using this command:

make install

==Configuration==

You may wish to configure the installation by passing one or more of the below arguments to the make command

* <code>PROGLDFLAGS=-static</code>
* <code>LIBNAME=lib64</code>
* <code>DESTDIR=/tmp/openrc-image</code>
* <code>MKBASHCOMP=no</code>
* <code>MKNET=no</code>
* <code>MKPAM=pam</code>
* <code>MKPREFIX=yes</code>
* <code>MKPKGCONFIG=no</code>
* <code>MKSELINUX=yes</code>
* <code>MKSTATICLIBS=no</code>
* <code>MKSYSVINIT=yes</code>
* <code>MKTERMCAP=ncurses</code>
* <code>MKTERMCAP=termcap</code>
* <code>MKZSHCOMP=no</code>
* <code>PKG_PREFIX=/usr/pkg</code>
* <code>LOCAL_PREFIX=/usr/local</code>
* <code>PREFIX=/usr/local</code>
* <code>BRANDING=\"Gentoo/$(uname -s)\"</code>
* <code>SH=/bin/sh</code>

Source: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/README.md

===Notes===

From [https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/README.md the developers:]<br/>

We don't support building a static OpenRC with PAM.

You may need to use PROGLDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bstatic on glibc instead of just -static.

If you are building OpenRC for a Gentoo Prefix installation, add MKPREFIX=yes.

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.

PREFIX should be set when OpenRC is not installed to /.

If any of the following files exist then we do not overwrite them<br/>

* ''/etc/devd.conf''
* ''/etc/rc''
* ''/etc/rc.shutdown''
* ''/etc/conf.d/*''

'''''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.

==OpenRC Developers Guide==



This document is aimed at developers or packagers who write OpenRC service scripts, either for their own projects, or for the packages they maintain. It contains advice, suggestions, tips, tricks, hints, and counsel; cautions, warnings, heads-ups, admonitions, proscriptions, enjoinders, and reprimands.

It is intended to prevent common mistakes that are found "in the wild" by pointing out those mistakes and suggesting alternatives. Each good/bad thing that you should/not do has a section devoted to it. We don't consider anything exotic, and assume that you will use start-stop-daemon to manage a fairly typical long-running UNIX process.

For more information see: [https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/service-script-guide.md OpenRC Service Script Writing Guide]

==Scripts to run OpenRC==

Scripts to run OpenRC are located on ''/etc/[[init.d]]/''.

==OpenRC Users Guide==

Source: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/user-guide.md

===Purpose and description===

OpenRC is an init system for Unixoid operating systems. It takes care of startup and shutdown of the whole system, including services.

It evolved out of the Gentoo "Baselayout" package which was a custom pure-shell startup solution. 

Most of the core parts are written in C99 for performance and flexibility reasons, while everything else is posix sh. The License is 2-clause BSD

Current size is about 10k LoC C, and about 4k LoC shell.

OpenRC is known to work on Linux, many BSDs (GhostBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD) and HURD.

Services are stateful (i.e. start; start will lead to "it's already started")

===Startup===

Usually PID1 (aka. init) calls the OpenRC binary (/sbin/openrc by default). 

OpenRC scans the runlevels (default: /etc/runlevels) and builds a dependency graph, then starts the needed service scripts, either serialized (default) or in parallel.

When all the service scripts are started OpenRC terminates. There is no persistent daemon. (Integration with tools like monit, runit or s6 can be done)

===Shutdown===

On change to runlevel 0/6 or running reboot, halt etc., OpenRC stops all services that are started and runs the services in the shutdown runlevel.

===Modifying Service Scripts===

Any service can, at any time, be started/stopped/restarted by executing rc-service someservice start, rc-service someservice stop, etc. Another, less preferred method, is to run the service script directly, e.g. /etc/init.d/service start, /etc/init.d/service stop, etc.

OpenRC will take care of dependencies, e.g starting apache will start network first, and stopping network will stop apache first.

There is a special command zap that makes OpenRC 'forget' that a service is started; this is mostly useful to reset a crashed service to stopped state without invoking the (possibly broken) stop function of the service script.

Calling openrc without any arguments will try to reset all services so that the current runlevel is satisfied; if you manually started apache it will be stopped, and if squid died but is in the current runlevel it'll be restarted.

===Runlevels===

OpenRC has a concept of runlevels, similar to what sysvinit historically offered. A runlevel is basically a collection of services that needs to be started. Instead of random numbers they are named, and users can create their own if needed. This allows, for example, to have a default runlevel with "everything" enabled, and a "powersaving" runlevel where some services are disabled.

The rc-status helper will print all currently active runlevels and the state of services in them:

 <nowiki># rc-status</nowiki>
* Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* Runlevel: default
* modules                     [  started  ]
* lvm                         [  started  ]

All runlevels are represented as folders in ''/etc/runlevels/'' with symlinks to the actual service scripts.

Calling OpenRC with an argument (openrc default) will switch to that runlevel; this will start and stop services as needed.

Managing runlevels is usually done through the ''rc-update helper'', but could of course be done by hand if desired. e.g. ''rc-update add nginx default'' - add nginx to the default runlevel '''Note:''' This will not auto-start nginx! You'd still have to trigger rc or run the service script by hand.

FIXME: Document stacked runlevels

The default startup uses the runlevels ''sysinit'', ''boot'', and ''default'', in that order. Shutdown uses the shutdown runlevel.

===The Magic of conf.d===

Most service scripts need default values. It would be fragile to explicitly source some arbitrary files. By convention ''openrc-run'' will source the matching file in ''/etc/conf.d/'' for any script in ''/etc/init.d/''

This allows you to set random startup-related things easily. 

'''Example:'''<br/>
''conf.d/foo:''<br/>
<code>START_OPTS="--extraparameter sausage"</code>

''init.d/foo:''<br/>
<code>start() {<br/>
	/usr/sbin/foo-daemon ${STARTOPTS}<br/>
}</code><br/>

The big advantage of this split is that most of the time editing of the service script can be avoided.

===Start-Stop-Daemon===

OpenRC has its own modified version of s-s-d, which is historically related and mostly syntax-compatible to Debian's s-s-d, but has been rewritten from scratch.

It helps with starting daemons, backgrounding, creating PID files and many other convenience functions related to managing daemons.

===/etc/rc.conf===

This file manages the default configuration for OpenRC, and it has examples of per-service-script variables.

Among these are ''rc_parallel'' (for parallelized startup), ''rc_log'' (logs all boot messages to a file), and a few others.

===ulimit and CGroups===

Setting ''ulimit'' and nice values per service can be done through the ''rc_ulimit'' variable.

Under Linux, OpenRC can use cgroups for process management as well. Once the kernel is configured appropriately, the ''rc_cgroup_mode'' setting in ''/etc/rc.conf'' should be used to control whether ''cgroups'' version one, two, or both are used. The default is to use both if they are available.

By changing certain settings in the service's ''conf.d'' file limits can be enforced per service. These settings are documented in detail in the default ''/etc/rc.conf'' under LINUX CGROUPS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.

===Dealing with Orphaned Processes===

It is possible to get into a state where there are orphaned processes running which were part of a service. For example, if you are monitoring a service with supervise-daemon and supervise-daemon dies for an unknown reason. The way to deal with this will be different for each system.

On Linux systems with cgroups enabled, the cgroup_cleanup command is added to all services. You can run it manually, when the service is stopped, by using:

<nowiki>#</nowiki><code> rc-service someservice cgroup_cleanup</code>

The ''rc_cgroup_cleanup'' setting can be changed to yes to make this happen automatically when the service is stopped.

===Caching===

For performance reasons OpenRC keeps a cache of pre-parsed service metadata (e.g. depend). The default location for this is /${RC_SVCDIR}/cache.

The cache uses mtime to check for file staleness. Should any service script change it'll re-source the relevant files and update the cache

===Convenience functions===

OpenRC has wrappers for many common output tasks in ''libeinfo''. This allows to print colour-coded status notices and other things. To make the output consistent the bundled service scripts all use ''ebegin/eend'' to print nice messages.

==For more Information See==

* [https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc OpenRC on GitHub]
* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC gentoo wiki]
* [https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+12.1-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html rc(8)]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRC Wikipedia]
* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenRC archlinux]





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