S6 (computer software)

s6Original author(s)| Laurent Bercot

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Stable release|

2.11.3.2 / April 2, 2023; 3 years ago (2023-04-02).[1]

Written in| C, Shell
Operating system| UNIX, Linux, FreeBSD[2]
Type| Init daemon
License| ISC License

s6 is a set of utility programs for process/service supervision and management, logging and system initialization[3], thus functionally resembling runit and daemontools. Designed to be small yet powerful, it is suitable for resource constrained deployments, like containers[4][5]or embedded systems[6].

It is available in major Linux distributions like Gentoo[7][8] or Debian[9]

## References

1. ↑ "s6 v2.11.3.2". 2023-04-02. https://git.skarnet.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/s6/tag/?h=v2.11.3.2.
2. ↑ "s6 Skarnet.org supervision suite". 2023-04-06. https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/s6/.
3. ↑ "An overview of s6". https://skarnet.org/software/s6/overview.html.
4. ↑ "How to understand S6 Overlay v3". https://darkghosthunter.medium.com/how-to-understand-s6-overlay-v3-95c81c04f075.
5. ↑ "Managing multi-process applications in containers using s6". https://kreuzwerker.de/en/post/managing-multi-process-applications-in-containers-using-s6.
6. ↑ "Why another supervision suite ?". https://skarnet.org/software/s6/why.html.
7. ↑ "s6 and s6-rc-based init system". https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/S6_and_s6-rc-based_init_system.
8. ↑ "S6". https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/S6.
9. ↑ "s6 small and secure supervision software suite". https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/s6.

## External links

* s6
* s6 git repository
* on GitHub

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Service management in Unix-like systems

Portable implementations|

* init
* Initng
* runit
* OpenRC

Operating-system-specific|

* Linux
* systemd
* Upstart
* macOS
* launchd
* SystemStarter
* Solaris
* Service Management Facility

Process supervision tools|

* daemontools
* monit
* runit

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