Re: Bug#831370: RFS: dh-runit/0.3
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 14:38:31 +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
>
> > how are runit features like disabled services (via the "down" file, for
> > the case that a service should be visible to runit but not started by
> > default)
>
> At bootup (entering stage 2, more correct), every service in /etc/service is started.
That does not apply to services that contain a file "down" in their
service directory.
> /etc/service contains symbolic links to /etc/sv/<foo>, so if you do not want service
> to be started at boot, just remove symlink. After boot, you can bring service down
> via 'sv down <service>'.
There are cases where I want a service to be known to runit, but not
started at bootup. Such cases are services that are used as
one-time-services via sv once <service> at certain events.
> > log services handled?
> Usually, it invokes `svlogd'. `dh-runit' do not handle creating
> log directory yet, since so far all it users are tty's, which do not log.
My question was if log/run is automatically picked up if it exists, or
needs to be installed with an additional command.
Regards,
Tino
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