From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/2053 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joan Picanyol i Puig Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: installing runit as a user... Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:20:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20101022002018.GA18339@grummit.biaix.org> References: <20101021211636.GC5055@bonnie.galis.org> <87r5fj9o76.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> <20101021234625.GE5055@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 1287707027 24731 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2010 00:23:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:23:47 +0000 (UTC) To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-X-From: supervision-return-2287-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Fri Oct 22 02:23:46 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 1P95Q7-000830-Jk for gcsg-supervision@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:23:43 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 13881 invoked by uid 76); 22 Oct 2010 00:25:51 -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 13873 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2010 00:25:51 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101021234625.GE5055@bonnie.galis.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:2053 Archived-At: * George Georgalis [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 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