* 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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