Re: s6/s6-rc policy for Gentoo: The logging directory

Jan Braun <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Jul 2024 02:03:33 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general
Message-ID	<Zox-VQ0q4UXSpUkj@abakus>

Peter Pentchev schrob:
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 01:45:42AM +0200, Paul Sopka wrote:
> > System supervision tree logs to to /var/log/${daemon}
> > 
> > User supervision tree logs got to /var/log/${USER}/${daemon}
> 
> Quick question (that you may have already thought about, apologies in
> advance): what happens if one wants to start a new daemon that has
> the same name as an already existing system user account?
> Also, what happens if a new system user account is created with
> the same name as an already configured service daemon?

Indeed. Those should be /var/log/s6/${daemon} and
/var/log/s6-user/${USER}/${daemon} respectively, to avoid stepping on
any toes.

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