From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/648 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gerrit Pape Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: runit on debian sid success, and questions Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:07:15 +0000 Message-ID: <20050115160620.15074.qmail@77689dde8fcfbc.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> References: <20050114120829.A11970@recycle.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105805166 28464 80.91.229.6 (15 Jan 2005 16:06:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-887-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Sat Jan 15 17:06:00 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14] ident=qmailr) by deer.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CpqR6-0004GH-00 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:06:00 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 5506 invoked by uid 76); 15 Jan 2005 16:06:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 5501 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2005 16:06:20 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050114120829.A11970@recycle.lbl.gov> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:648 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:648 On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:08:29PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote: > I have my debian sid amd64 system converted to runit-1.05. Good ;-). > I'm not done setting everything up, but at the moment my > system is running about as well as it did before the change. > > $ ls /var/service > boa getty-5 getty-6 klogd ntpclient qmail socklog sshd xfs > $ > > The only (non-kernel) daemons left running _not_ under runsvdir > are udevd, portmap, and gconfd-2. Vixie cron and I aren't getting > along very well at the moment, it's not running at all. :-p See here for examples for portmap and Debian's cron: http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html#portmap http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html#cron > Here are my questions (so far) about runit and friends: > > In the debian kit, most static files are in /etc/runit, > while dynamic files are in /var. A forest of symlinks > connects the two "databases". One exception to that rule > is the log configuration file, in /var/log/foo/config. > Is this purposeful and/or unavoidable? Since the filename always is ``config'' it must be associated with the log directory, but you can of course make it a symlink if you like. > The process of setting up service directories is tedious. > It's a little late for me, but I can imagine automating some > of the creation and maintenance process. Maybe even (gasp) > a GUI. Are you aware of any efforts in this direction? No, but if anyone goes for it, I would be interested. Regards, Gerrit.