From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1058 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gilles Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: service definition vs service activation Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 22:54:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20060306215443.GA23824@dusk.harfang.homelinux.org> References: <20060306160542.18689.qmail@036bc12a5086b2.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> <20060306111338.2d8151ff@alloy.copperisle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141682116 22101 80.91.229.2 (6 Mar 2006 21:55:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 21:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1295-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Mon Mar 06 22:55:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FGNfD-0007Mm-SD for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:54:47 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 15393 invoked by uid 76); 6 Mar 2006 21:55:09 -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 15387 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2006 21:55:09 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060306111338.2d8151ff@alloy.copperisle.com> X-Operating-System: Tiny Tux X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: 53B9 972E C2E6 B93C BEAD 7092 09E6 AF46 51D0 5641 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.107.30 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gilles@harfang.homelinux.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on dawn.harfang.homelinux.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on localhost) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1058 Archived-At: Hi. > > But /etc/sv on too many systems does make a poor choice for the service > definition directory. Yes, I do know you could symlink /etc/sv back > to yet another directory on the /var partition, or even create a > separate /etc/sv partition with /var-like attributes. Way too much > bother; it's hard enough to encourage people on the value of service > supervision as it is. > > In summary, all this has just been a long-winded way of appealing > for a reconsideration of documenting /etc/sv as the service definition > directory for runit. > As I hinted in a previous post (but without giving the arguments as you did), I think I agree with you ;-) Gilles