From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1116 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Efros Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: runit using /var/service vs. /service Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 04:29:20 +0300 Organization: asdfGroup Inc., http://powerman.asdfGroup.com/ Message-ID: <20060518012920.GA1684@home.power> References: <446BBBF6.3070200@robinbowes.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147915770 32449 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2006 01:29:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 01:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1352-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Thu May 18 03:29:28 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 1FgXKM-00074z-BY for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 03:29:22 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 24566 invoked by uid 76); 18 May 2006 01:29:43 -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 24560 invoked from network); 18 May 2006 01:29:43 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <446BBBF6.3070200@robinbowes.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1116 Archived-At: Hi! On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 01:12:38AM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote: > I have /var mounted on a separate partition so in some circumstances > /var/service will not be available (e.g. booting single user with just > the root filesystem mounted). I don't really understand your problem, but I think you can create /var/service symlink in empty /var directory (before mounting it) and duplicate this symlink on partition which will be mount to /var. This way I think runsvdir shouldn't notice any changes after mounting /var. -- WBR, Alex.