vsv - Void Service Manager
Posted by Dave Eddy on Sep 20 2018 - tags: techIn my previous post, Using Void Linux As My Daily Driver, I
wrote that I used vpm as a wrapper for the xbps-*
commands to
manage packages on Void Linux. I like how convenient the tool is and
how it works (it knows it’s a wrapper command and it doesn’t try to hide that
fact). It also makes the output very colorful, which I do like a lot. I know
that’s a bit of a simple reason, but I personally just like very colorful output
(with the option to disable it of course).
Managing services on Void Linux is already fairly easy using the sv
command;
however, I felt a couple of things could be made simpler and that the output
could be more obvious at a quick glance.
With that, vsv
was born.
vsv
is a bash script wrapper for the sv
command that can be used to query
and manage services via runit. It was made specifically for Void Linux
but should theoretically work on any system using runit to manage services.
vsv
was inspired by vpm
. vsv
is to sv
what vpm
is to the
xbps-*
commands. vsv
is available under the MIT License on GitHub:
https://github.com/bahamas10/vsv