update runit thing for arch

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Title: Runit on Arch Linux
Last update: 14 August 2014
[The easy method, for the impatient](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/runit-init/)
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I like how runit manages things,
especially the restarting of dead daemons.
I was growing tired of sysvinit when systemd started making inroads,
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It's a natural way to provide information to the user,
and all that's needed for "debugging mode" is to launch the daemon at the command line
instead of from runit.
stdout from a service is sent to stdin on a log service,
In fact, the "log" package in Go (language) works without any modifications
in this way.
stdout from a runit service is sent to stdin on a log service,
which runit also keeps track of.
That log service can be anything you want:
`svlogd` does a pretty good job timestamping lines,
and it also rotates logs automatically without needing to stop and start the daemon.
Have I convinced you?
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Try out my
[runit-init AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/runit-init/)
which does everything described here,
and also contains updates for things like mdev (instead of udev)
patches to X to start without udev,
and cryptographic filesystem mounting.
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The Gory Details
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Everything below here was written in February 2013.
Things have changed since then;
in particular, I have [an AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/runit-init/)
which uses busybox runit to boot your system.
I'm leaving the rest for people who want discussion about how to boot their system.
This will all still work, it's just that the AUR works better :)
Peculiarities of my setup
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