Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 38/46] Move xenconsoled to libexec

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 14:56 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 15:00 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > xenconsoled is started by runlevel scripts, its not supposed to be
> > > called by admin.  So move it out of the way into LIBEXEC_BIN.
> > 
> > It's pretty normal/conventional for daemons to be in $sbin, I think.
> > 
> > I think the point is that although daemons might normally be started by
> > an initscript it is also allowable (and occasionally useful) to start
> > them by hand or via other means. In contrast to something like the
> > libxl-save-helper which is something which does belong in libexec.
> > 
> > I'd be reluctant to change this without a reference to something like
> > the FHS to back up why it should be in libexec.
> 
> Is it possible to restart the daemons which I move to libexec? I think
> at least xenstored can not be restarted. So it does not make much sense
> to have it in $sbin, because its a run once thing.

I don't think run once vs restartable is a consideration here. Even the
first run might be manual. I don't think FHS makes a distinction like
this.

Ian.


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel