tcpsvd vs. tcpserver

Hi there.  I'm pretty new to runit/ipsvd/etc. and am looking at 
completely replacing daemontools/ucspi-tcp with runit/ipsvd and for the 
most part I've done it.  The only thing left to convert is the scripts 
using tcpserver.

I'd like to mimic the tcpserver behaviour as much as possible, so I'd 
perfer to use cdb files rather than directories, although it looks to 
me like there isn't much difference since the directories are used to 
build the cdb files (at least that's what I understand).  Before I dive 
whole-hog into this, I'd just like to clarify one thing.

With tcpserver if I use -X, it tells tcpserver to allow everything if 
foo.cdb doesn't exist.  Does tcpsvd (and the others) do this 
automatically?  Or is the default to deny?  There is no -X (or similar) 
switch in tcpsvd that I can see.

I would also suspect that using:

tcpserver -c30 -HRXv -llocalhost -x /etc/tcprules.d/cvspserver.cdb 0 
cvspserver /usr/sbin/cvspserver 2>&1

is the same as:

tcpsvd -c 30 -v -l localhost -x /etc/tcprules.d/cvspserver.cdb 0 
cvspserver /usr/sbin/cvspserver 2>&1

correct?

I suppose that using the directories would be simplest, but I'm trying 
to make things as easy as possible because this is for a Linux server 
distribution that I'm working on, so it needs to be fairly simple for 
others to use.  Using cdb files with tcpserver was simple... one config 
file, one cdb.  Keeps things easy.  This directory scheme doesn't seem 
quite as straightforward.  =)

BTW, thank you Gerrit for runit and ipsvd.  I like the license far 
better and it works much better for the OS I'm working on.  By default 
everything (except autofs which I still need to work on) is run out of 
runit and it's absolutely fantastic.  I had initially used daemontools 
to handle this and wrote a wrapper script (much like Bruce's 
supervise-scripts but this is one sole program) to give it a little 
"ease of use" (essentially, my srv mimics the functionality of the 
standard service/chkconfig programs).  I much prefer running everything 
supervised like this and have just recently converted everything from 
daemontools to runit and am now looking to do the same with tcpserver 
to tcpsvd.

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