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From: =?utf-8?q?=C3=89rico_Nogueira?= <ericonr@disroot.org>
To: "Kian Kasad" <kian@kasad.com>, <supervision@list.skarnet.org>
Subject: Re: runit: run process in a tty
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 01:50:23 -0300
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In-Reply-To: <20201017003545.6k2vys6psg4izccg@frisbee>

On Fri Oct 16, 2020 at 2:35 PM -03, Kian Kasad wrote:
> I'm trying to have a runit service spawn `/usr/bin/ly` in a certain tty
> (tty2). I've tried redirecting std{in,out,err} to the tty:
>
> exec /usr/bin/ly </dev/tty2 >/dev/tty2 2>&1
>
> but this didn't work.
>

As far as I know, ly wants to be explicitly configured for a certain
tty, instead of supporting being launched anywhere. Even then, it might
still require quite a bit of work to function properly.

You can see a service for it in a PR for Void Linux [1]. For anyone
curious, ly is a TUI display manager [2].

- [1] https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/24038/files#diff-cbc=
da52b1a625e2c6b384056d5fba09297ffdf613786fe00b8c23c209bf3d7d7
- [2] https://github.com/nullgemm/ly

> I tried the openvt(1) program, which has a flag `-e` to exec the program
> instead of forking it:

I don't know anything about openvt, unfortunately.