66 - Helpers tools around S6 supervision suite

Sixty-six is a collection of system tools built around s6 and s6-rc created to make the implementation and manipulation of service files on your machine easier. It is meant to be a toolbox for the declaration, implementation and administration of services where seperate programs can be joined to achieve powerful functionality with small amounts of code.

Examples of what can be achieved by assembling different programs provided by 66:

• Frontend service files declaration.
• Easy creation of a scandir.
• Nested supervision tree.
• Instance service file creation.
• Multiple directories service file declaration(packager,sysadmin,user).
• Easy change of service configuration.
• Automatic logger creation.
• Service Notification.
• Organizes services as a tree.
• Easy view of service status.
• User service declaration.
• Automatic dependencies service chain.
• ...

66 works on mechanisms not on policies. It can be compiled with glibc or musl.

Installation

See the INSTALL.md file.

Documentation

Online documentation

Contact information

• Email: Eric Vidal <eric@obarun.org>

• Mailing list https://obarun.org/mailman/listinfo/66_obarun.org/

• Web site: https://web.obarun.org/

• IRC Channel: Network: chat.freenode.net Channel : #obarun

Supports the project

Please consider to make donation

Frontend service file

66 do not provide any frontend services file by default. 66 works on mechanisms not on policies.

Boot service file

The boot sequence can be a tedious task to accomplish. A portable and complete set of service can be found here. This set of service work out of the box and highly configurable to suit needs of the distributions. POC was made on Gentoo, Funtoo, Devuan, Void, Adelie, Arch.

Runtime service file

You can find several examples for common daemon here

Frontend service file scripting

By default, 66 use execline as scripting language. 66-tools provide some additonal tools to help you on this task. Some are specific to execline where other can be used on classic shell.

Examples of common use

Note: all 66 tools can be run as root or regular user.

Creates a new tree called root:

66-tree -n root

Enables the tree at boot time:

66-tree -E root

Enables a service inside a specific tree:

66-enable -t root dhcpcd tty@tty1 tty@tty2

Disables a service from a specific tree:

66-disable -t root dhcpcd

Starts a service:

66-start dhcpcd

Stops a service:

66-stop dhcpcd

View the status of a service:

66-inservice dhcpcd

View a specific fields of the service(name,status and the contain of the associated log file):

66-inservice -o name,status,logfile dhcpcd

View all services contained on a tree:

66-intree root

Starts all services in one pass for a specific tree:

66-all -t root up

Stops all services in one pass for a specific tree:

66-all -t root down