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From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@annvix.org>
Subject: Re: runit using /var/service vs. /service
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 15:37:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060518213718.GJ686@annvix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060518012920.GA1684@home.power>

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* Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.asdfGroup.com> [2006-05-18 04:29:20 +0300]:

> > 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.

Why not just run runsvdir against /service and forget /var/service
altogether?  You're not locked into a certain directory with runit...
you could put it in /usr/local/foo/lalala if you wanted to.

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      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-18 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-18  0:12 Robin Bowes
2006-05-18  1:29 ` Alex Efros
2006-05-18 21:37   ` Vincent Danen [this message]

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