Re: runit directory organization

["Csillag Tamás" <cstamas@digitus.itk.ppke.hu>]

Hi

On 04/04, Gregg Howe wrote:
>    I have just installed runit in my lfs system and I am so grateful to be
>    able to simplify managing services.
>    
>    However, I am undecided as to how to organize the service file directories
>    and I am wondering what works for others.  And whether anyone cares about
>    whether or how the runit file organization should fit into the Linux FHS.
>    
>    Ordinarily, I would have service start and finish scripts in /etc, yet the
>    service hierarchy also contains pipes, flags, pid files, etc which seem
>    more appropriate in /var.  Or is this the kind of information that is
>    destined for /svc (I am not really sure what /svc is for)?
>    
>    I also will be setting up different service configurations, which I
>    suppose are like runlevels.  But the description of using runsvchdir shows
>    the svdirs (current, previous, etc) back in /etc rather than /var.  This
>    confuses me.  Perhaps someone could explain how they organize their
>    service directories, svdir directories and run scripts.
>    
>    Gregg Howe

I put each service in /var/srv I have /service which is symlinked to
/var/service. If I want to set-up a new service I put it into /var/srv
then symlink it to /service.

runsvdir watches /var/service
(The symlink is just for my own preference.)

This is better (IMHO) because I do not want to mess with log directories in
every dir. I mean log/run contains:
#!/bin/sh
exec chpst -u log svlogd -tt ./main

I do not have to keep up the same structure for log files.
And log files must not go to /etc.

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cstamas