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From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Subject: Re: /etc/sv vs /etc/runit vs /var/service
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:06:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060630080635.22683.qmail@22045ba7c0224b.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c27faacf0606290543x2b4ac83at1d5b194c9825b8eb@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:43:00AM -0400, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> After reading through the docs for runit 1.6, I'm looking for some
> thoughts on how /etc/sv relates to /var/service and
> /etc/runit/runsvdir/current (the former the default for 'sv', the
> latter the default for 'runsvchdir').
> 
> As best as I can figure, /var/service should be a symlink to
> /etc/runit/runsvdir/current, and nothing really looks at /etc/sv -- so

Yes, this is documented in
 http://smarden.org/runit/runlevels.html#prepare

Note, this is optional.

> it might just as well be something like /etc/runit/runsvdir/available
> (with symlinks from current to ../available/<service> for those
> services we want active).

Sure, it might also be /my/collection/of/service/directories/.  I chose
/etc/sv/ though.

Regards, Gerrit.


      reply	other threads:[~2006-06-30  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-29 12:43 Lars Kellogg-Stedman
2006-06-30  8:06 ` Gerrit Pape [this message]

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