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From: Joan Picanyol i Puig <lists-supervision@biaix.org>
To: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: installing runit as a user...
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:20:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101022002018.GA18339@grummit.biaix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101021234625.GE5055@bonnie.galis.org>

* George Georgalis <george@galis.org> [20101022 01:43]:
> On Thu 21 Oct 2010 at 06:27:09 PM -0400, Jameson Rollins wrote:
> >On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:16:36 -0700, George Georgalis <george@galis.org> 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?
> >
[...]
> >I have also been experimenting with "user runsvdir" instances that are
> >controlled by the system runsvdir instance.  If the user has a ~/.sv
> >directory, the user runsvdir process manages run dirs in that directory.
[...]
> 
> great idea, I don't imagine you have sv configured to look in
> ~/sv or some such?
> 
> managing the path to sv and the path sv uses could get confusing
> since I normally use the sgid on the supervise directory to
> control root services as a user...

The only managing headache that I've found is permissions in
directories. You want to allow users read only access to their
supervisors' logs, not more. I have a vague recollection of this being
discussed previously.

qvb
--
pica


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-22  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-21 21:16 George Georgalis
2010-10-21 22:27 ` Jameson Rollins
2010-10-21 23:46   ` George Georgalis
2010-10-22  0:20     ` Joan Picanyol i Puig [this message]
2010-10-22 22:07     ` Jameson Rollins
2010-10-21 22:39 ` Charlie Brady
2010-10-21 23:30   ` George Georgalis
2010-10-22 22:10     ` Jameson Rollins

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