Re: runit directory organization

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:48:55PM -0700, 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.

On Debian, I have the runit configuration including getty services in
/etc/runit/.  Other packages/services put their service directories into
/etc/ (or a subdirectory /etc/<package>/), and optionally provide a link
in /var/service/.  Logs are put into /var/log/.

> 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.

You can make the ./supervise subdirectory in the service directory a
symlink to /var/run/<service> before enabling it for the first time.
runsv will follow the dangling symlink, and creates the directory in
/var/run/.  So you only have the configuration in /etc/.

Regards, Gerrit.