From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
To: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: runit-1.9.0 available
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:48:59 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20080513T104459-914@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48296B7C.20302@robinbowes.com>
Robin Bowes <robin-lists <at> robinbowes.com> writes:
> Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > When installing runit on a system that should comply with the Filesystem
> > Hierarchy Standard (FHS), neither /service/ nor /var/service/ should be
> > chosen, but /etc/service/. It is recommended to create a compatibility
> > symlink /service pointing to /etc/service in this case.
>
> Is this for the actual service configurations, or the directory
> monitored by runsvdir-start ?
The latter.
> Are you sure this is FHS-compliant? Wouldn't /var/run/service be a
> better location?
At Debian, which adheres to the FHS, we agreed that /etc/service/
doesn't conflict with the FHS, so yes. /var/run/service is not
suitable, because /var/run/ may well be a ramdisk, and its content
is not guaranteed to survive a reboot.
Regards, Gerrit.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-13 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-13 9:28 Gerrit Pape
2008-05-13 10:20 ` Robin Bowes
2008-05-13 10:48 ` Gerrit Pape [this message]
2008-05-14 23:11 ` George Georgalis
2008-05-15 17:10 ` Charles Duffy
2008-05-16 1:25 ` Zachary Kotlarek
2008-05-16 12:55 ` Robin Bowes
2008-05-16 13:37 ` Radek Podgorny
2008-05-16 15:07 ` Charles Duffy
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