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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.