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The Epoch Init System

Epoch is a single-threaded init system for Linux 2.6+, designed to be useful yet small and unintrusive. It uses a declarative configuration style.

It has no dependencies whatsoever other than glibc, and /bin/sh is strongly recommended but can be disabled with --disable-shell.

It supports process supervision, service status, autorestarting, stderr/stdout redirection, user/group setting, and much more.

For instructions on creating a configuration file for Epoch, please visit http://universe2.us/epochconfig.html.

Additional information is available at http://universe2.us/epoch.html.

Epoch is public domain software. See UNLICENSE.TXT for more details.