Dear colleagues,
I verified my svlogd logging problems on Debian/Devuan and it turned out
that the error
I was getting was non-specific and did not really interfere with either
daemon supervision
by runsv or generating logs via svlogd. Also, the error appears on my
Gentoo boxen alike.
Below, an example snippet:
"runsvdir: log: 2: exec 2: ./run not found: exec 3: not found"
Curiously, ./log/run exists and gets executed, in addition to "exec" being
built in the Shell
and also being executed. Not sure what's going on...
Secondly, what is really the default service directory per upstream -
/service, /var/service,
/etc/service or another directory? The official docs online mention
/service in the sv(8)
manpage, but Void Linux uses /var/service and Debian uses /etc/service. The
sv(8)
manpage for Debian mentions /etc/service, but there are no dates anywhere
to confirm
when was this changed. What it means in practice is that when doing "sv
<command>
service", if sv tries to look for the service dir in the wrong main
directory, it will return
an error: "service directory does not exist". This can be circumvented by
calling the
service dir via sv directly, as in "sv <command> /path/to/service/".
However, I would like
to know what's the current "vanilla" upstream to help the Devuan people
better.
Other than that I think runit is great and the more I learn about it, the
more I feel it can be
used as the go-to supervision suite for Unices :).
Best regards,
Andrzej
On 17 October 2016 at 06:09, Andy Mender <andymenderunix_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the links and the svlogd script. Great help indeed :).
>
> Best regards,
> Andy
>
> On 16 Oct 2016 22:19, "Avery Payne" <avery.p.payne_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I hate using webmail. It always eats your formatting.
>
> The script shows up as a block of text in the mailing list because of
> this; just click the link for the project and look for the run-svlogd
> script. You'll find what you need there.
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Avery Payne <avery.p.payne_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Andy Mender <andymenderunix_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I managed to solve some of my problems. It turned out that my terminal
>>> was
>>> being spammed
>>> with erroneous output, because I didn't add the "exec 2&>1" redirection
>>> to
>>> my ./run files.
>>>
>>
>> This behavior is fairly consistent among supervisors. The use of STDERR
>> typically is left to the administrator to decide; more commonly, it's
>> simply tied off into the STDOUT stream for ease of use.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Another problem popped up on my Devuan box, though. I was trying to add a
>>> log directory with a ./run script inside to log dhcpcd per runit's
>>> design.
>>> However, runsvdir complaints that "exec: not found".
>>>
>>
>> This is probably a problem with your shell. The shebang specified might
>> point to an actual sh and not something like bash, ash, dash, etc. I don't
>> have a reference handy but I suspect that you are seeing failure messages
>> for "exec" because the shell doesn't support that built-in.
>>
>> If you encounter this, change the first line to /bin/bash or /bin/ash or
>> /bin/dash and see if that resolves the issue.
>>
>>
>>> The same run scripts work on Gentoo, which makes it even more surprising.
>>>
>>
>> Gentoo may be mapping /bin/sh to bash/ash/something else, but I don't
>> know. I would suggest finding out.
>>
>>
>>> Below the log/run script:
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> exec chpst -u log svlogd -tt ./
>>>
>>
>> I'll post a companion log script in a moment.
>>
>>
>>> PS Earlier runsvdir was complaining that "log: user/group not found". I
>>> created the "log" group, thinking it might help somehow.
>>>
>>
>> You shouldn't need to create the group normally, which may indicate a
>> separate issue.
>>
>> Try this run script in your ./svcdef/dbus/log directory. It's lifted
>> straight from the source at http://bitbucket.org/avery_pay
>> ne/supervision-scripts as the ./svcdef/.log/run-svlogd script. Please
>> note that you may need to change the group name after chown, and the shell
>> in the first line to meet your needs:
>>
>> #!/bin/shexec 2>&1# determine our parent's nameSVNAME=$( basename $( echo `pwd` | sed 's/log//' ) )# bring up svlogd logging into a subdirectory that has the parent's name.[ -d /var/log/$SVNAME ] || mkdir -p /var/log/$SVNAME ; chown :adm /var/log/$SVNAME[ -d main ] || ln -s /var/log/$SVNAME mainexec /usr/bin/svlogd -tt main
>>
>> If you are using Gentoo, I would recommend looking at Toki Clover's
>> implementation at https://github.com/tokiclover/supervision.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 20 2016 - 07:40:35 UTC