Re: runit logging questions

[Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.name>]

Hi!

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 08:43:10PM +0100, Raymond Barlow wrote:
> Logging:

I think if you just try to use it you'll get all answers, and faster than
waiting for replies in list.

> * Do you need to create 2 run scripts (/etc/sv/myservice/run,
> /etc/sv/myservice/log/run)? Or does the log/run supersede the myservice/run
> script?

You need 2 run scripts.

> * The directory specified in the log run script to svlogd (eg ./main)--does
> this live in the log directory?

I think relative path will be relative to service's ./log/ directory with
run script - don't think svlogd will do any magic path mangling here, it
should work just like in any other app.
I'm using absolute paths to /var/log/service_name/.

> * Do I need to create the log directory or does the svlogd directory do
> that for me

You have to create it. And set directory permissions. And, usually, put
./config file into that directory to configure log rotation. Yep, a lot of
work.

I remember in daemontools were some helper tools which help you create and
configure new service and may do this for you, but I didn't used them for
years so not really sure.

> * Where does the log go? I've looked in this main directory, and it is
> still empty.

If you didn't see ./current log file in log directory then svlogd probably
doesn't run (service not started or svlogd can't start because of wrong
params or log directory permissions).

-- 
			WBR, Alex.