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Zachary Kotlarek wrote:

>> I've built netbooting/embedded systems where /etc was mounted 
>> read-only. Putting the run, check, supervise and finish scripts there 
>> makes sense -- but it would be nice if the supervise directories could 
>> be split out and stored elsewhere (presumably on tmpfs) in such 
>> environments.
> 
> I do that exactly -- /, including /etc, is read-only on most of my 
> systems. I put scripts in /etc/supervise so they hit the configuration 
> management, and symlink the supervise directory to /var/tmp/run/whatever 
> so it can be read/write.

That makes sense to me.

What would make more sense is being able to specify that the supervise 
directory should be created in some location other than the service 
directory, e.g. /var/run/service_name.

R.