Re: /etc/runit vs /etc/sv vs /usr/share (Debian)

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 03:54:45PM +0100, Gilles wrote:
> > but in the style of the new sv program, I decided to now
> > recommend the /etc/sv/ directory.  I'm in the progress of moving the
> > getty-? service directories and other (such as provided by socklog-run,
> > bcron-run, twoftpd-run, ...) into /etc/sv/ too.
> 
> But why having some services in their own package "<service>-run" and
> others mixed in "runit-services"?

While I can provide a socklog-run package, I don't have control over
the 'other' packages.  And I'm afraid it's not that easy to convince
maintainers of 'other' packages to provide such a *-run package, at
least not short-term.  So the runit-services package is a (interims)
place to make the service directories available conveniently.  I would
be happy to remove them once they appear in a <service>-run package.
One could try by filing wishlist bugs against the corresponding
packages.

> > After all it's just personal preference.  I prefer to have the service's
> > configuration (including run scripts) and logs all accessible through a
> > single directory, now /etc/sv/<service>/.
> 
> Definitely fine for "run" and "log/run", but do you really recommend having
> the log files in there too?  Those files can grow and eat a large amount
> of the root partition's space!  I thought a better place would be

No, I recommend to have them _accessible_ through the service directory,
think of symlinks.

> > /usr/share/ should be good for examples or template service directories,
> > but for actual use, they should be somewhere in /etc/, where
> > configuration files usually belong.
> 
> There, you said "for actual use", which was exactly my point in the
> previous mail:  Not all services in the package "runit-services"
> will be actually installed on the system:  For those unwanted services,
> having a directory under "/etc/sv" might be construed as a little
> bit "messy" (or at best, misleading).

Maybe.  I personally don't care that much, and don't link them into
/var/service/.

Regards, Gerrit.