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From: Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Runit-run and socklog-run upgrades on Debian sid, be careful!
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:04:38 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060323063438.GN3082@always.joy.eth.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060322193831.GC24911@odin.dempsky.org>

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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:38:31PM -0600, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:23:28AM -0600, Kevin wrote:
> > Runit-run replaces the getty links in /var/service with new ones 
> > in /etc/sv.  If you're running the upgrade from a getty, the getty will 
> > die when its service dir link is removed to be replaced, leaving 
> > non-functional services.
> 
> Hm, when I upgraded about 30 minutes ago, I saw some weirdness in the 
> logs, but my fgetty's didn't die.  (I too was upgrading via the 
> terminal.)

It probably depends on the speed of the machine.  runsvdir polls at
least every 5 seconds so any race condition would be more apparent on a
slow machine.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-23  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-22 15:23 Kevin
2006-03-22 19:38 ` Matthew R. Dempsky
2006-03-23  6:34   ` Joshua N Pritikin [this message]
2006-04-01  8:31 ` Gerrit Pape

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