From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/2050 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charlie Brady Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: installing runit as a user... Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:39:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: 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 1287700793 2869 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2010 22:39:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org To: George Georgalis Original-X-From: supervision-return-2284-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Fri Oct 22 00:39:52 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 1P93nc-0001E7-CZ for gcsg-supervision@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:39:52 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 1392 invoked by uid 76); 21 Oct 2010 22:42:00 -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 1383 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2010 22:42:00 -0000 X-X-Sender: charlieb@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com In-Reply-To: <20101021211636.GC5055@bonnie.galis.org> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:2050 Archived-At: 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. What are you trying to do which you cannot do? > > Garrit, it this something you would include in forthcoming > releases and if so, do you have any requirements or preferred > methods? > > --George >