From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/2051 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: George Georgalis Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: installing runit as a user... Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:30:17 -0700 Message-ID: <20101021233017.GD5055@bonnie.galis.org> References: <20101021211636.GC5055@bonnie.galis.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287703825 13515 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2010 23:30:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:30:25 +0000 (UTC) To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-X-From: supervision-return-2285-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Fri Oct 22 01:30:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@lo.gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P94aS-0003UR-Om for gcsg-supervision@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:30:20 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 6842 invoked by uid 76); 21 Oct 2010 23:32:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 6834 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2010 23:32:27 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:2051 Archived-At: On Thu 21 Oct 2010 at 06:39:56 PM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote: > >On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, George Georgalis wrote: > >> I'd like to use runit and svlogd as a user in a couple >> applications (eg x11 sessions and desktop widgets) and I was >> wondering what experiences people have had with this? >> >> It looks like both socklog and runit require a package/upgrade >> rewrite since they don't accept any configuration, but that should >> be straightforward. > >Why do you think they need a rewrite? What do you think needs rewriting? >AFAICT, you can compile, copy binaries to where you want to put them, and >run them. yeah, that's all. the package/upgrade script needs to be replaced because it doesn't accept non root configuration. > >What are you trying to do which you cannot do? nothing. the question is should I go through the trouble of writing something Gerrit could distribute or just make a "works for me" fix. --George