From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1060 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joshua N Pritikin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: service definition vs service activation Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:51:24 +0530 Message-ID: <20060307052124.GH6346@always.joy.eth.net> References: <20060306160542.18689.qmail@036bc12a5086b2.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> <20060306111338.2d8151ff@alloy.copperisle.com> <20060306215443.GA23824@dusk.harfang.homelinux.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141708335 30045 80.91.229.2 (7 Mar 2006 05:12:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 05:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1296-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Tue Mar 07 06:12:13 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 1FGUUW-0000pC-IA for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:12:12 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 20285 invoked by uid 76); 7 Mar 2006 05:12:33 -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 20279 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2006 05:12:33 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060306215443.GA23824@dusk.harfang.homelinux.org> X-PGP-Key: 06E3 3D22 D307 AAE6 ACB4 6B44 A9CA A794 A4A6 0BBD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1060 Archived-At: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:54:43PM +0100, Gilles wrote: > > 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 ;-) Agreed. The definitions need to be on a writable volume because of runsv's supervise state. /etc is not always writable.