From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1866 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gerrit Pape Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: runit-1.9.0 available Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:48:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <48296B7C.20302@robinbowes.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210675770 5497 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2008 10:49:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:49:30 +0000 (UTC) To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-X-From: supervision-return-2101-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Tue May 13 12:50:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jvs52-0000n4-Ai for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 12:50:00 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 21495 invoked by uid 76); 13 May 2008 10:49:35 -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 21487 invoked from network); 13 May 2008 10:49:35 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 77.245.32.75 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.14eol) Gecko/20070505 (Debian-1.8.0.15~pre080323b-0etch1) Galeon/2.0.2 (Debian package 2.0.2-4)) Original-Sender: news Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1866 Archived-At: Robin Bowes 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