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yebyen / urbinit

Scripts to help users of Urbit + Docker
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Good Ideas in phusion/baseimage-docker #1

Open kingdonb opened 10 years ago

kingdonb commented 10 years ago

Implement the good ideas in http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/ A permanent container should also have syslog, cron, and ssh. These are optional but for an urbit host, ssh is probably desirable. Also having a less janky init would be good -- it's not clear if the reasons runit were chosen are still good reasons when the container is meant to host a single-process Urbit pier.

A fun experiment would also be starting up multiple piers (destroyer? cruiser, carrier) on boot via runit, and automatically starting :chat only if it's not already running, setting a wide enough window size to prevent Arvo wrapping the lines, and hooking the output up to syslog where timestamps can be magically placed on the chat log; exposing an interface to get yacht tickets and let ssh users consume them safely within the urbinit yacht startup suite, etc.

kingdonb commented 10 years ago

So this is at least three separate branches, not really all for one pull request...

  1. Can we make a good recipe for an "anonymous chat logging" container that joins chat automatically and adds local timestamps to a private room log
  2. What should vere look like when started here by an init system / how to we use daemon mode correctly to make a good pier host, or is it completely appropriate for this case
  3. How to distribute yacht tickets or any other kind of tickets in a fairly automated way (say, to subscribing / paying customers, who should also get console access and may even be in a position to sink their own ships from the batz shell)
yebyen commented 10 years ago
  1. Chat has its own timestamps now. :chat %time
  2. There actually is a -d daemon mode of vere, never tried it. Urbit wants a real tty.
  3. Not sure, but there is /=main=/bin/autobegin/hoon now, if you can find docs or know how to use it.