ServiceD

About

ServiceD is a full featured init system for UNIX systems fully adopting the client/server model in it's core.
It's completely written in the C++ language and makes extensive use of the POSIX threads.
The client/server model is implemented using inet stream sockets.

ServiceD should be read as service d.

Features

• Solves service dependencies.
• Starts services in parallel for maximum efficiency and to cut lots of boot time.
• Services are described in XML.
• Every action is done using the client/server model.
• Can respawn daemon services.
• Powerful logging system.
• Every service has it's own log file.
• Some vital actions are done via plugins (like mounting filesystems).
• Three plugins: alpha, omega, panic.
• Alpha plugin: is run before all services are started (used for mounting filesystems).
• Omega plugin: is run after all services are stopped (used for umounting filesystems).
• Panic plugin: is run when something is wrong (segmentation fault, filesystem errors).

Download

Please refer to the Sourceforge Project page

PS: At this time only subversion checkouts are possible. At some time in the future I will release the first serviced version and using subversion to experiment the software will not be needed anymore.

Roadmap

Some things I'd like to implement in serviced:

• Make the first release ;-)
• Cron support (service starting at a certain time).
• Obsolete the inetd daemon (serviced will do this job).