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On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 02:35:43PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:
> Gerrit Pape wrote:
>> The Debian runit package now switched to /etc/service, and I'm about to
>> change runit to use /service by default, just as daemontools does.
>> daemontools in Debian, just like runit in Debian, uses /etc/service, and
>> recommends to create a compatibility symlink /service -> /etc/service.
>
> Out of interest, where do you/Debian/others put the actual service  
> directories, i.e. containing the run file and log dir? I currently use  
> /etc/sv/servicename and symlink to /var/service/

Me/Debian: /etc/sv/<service-name>, and the ./supervise symlinks point to
/var/lib/supervise/<service-name>[.log].  /var/run/ turned out to not be
appropriate, since it might be cleaned up on reboot, losing permission
changes possibly made to the directory and files in it.

Regards, Gerrit.