Re: s6-rc how to log oneshot services

From: Carlos Eduardo <carana2099_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 14:17:06 -0300

Artix Linux achieves this with

pipeline -dw { s6-log ... } actual-oneshot

Not ideal due to the lack of supervision for s6-log, but it works.

Em ter., 7 de mar. de 2023 08:12, Daniel Barlow <dan_at_telent.net> escreveu:

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> Hi all
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> I've adopted s6 and s6-rc for a small distro that's targeted at
> consumer wifi routers and similar low-powered devices (same target
> devices as openwrt) and so far I am appreciating the consistency and the
> warm fuzzies that I get from having a supervision tree (and simple
> readiness checks!) instead of a folder full of pid files that may or
> may not correspond with what's actually running.
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> My question is: how should I handle logging for oneshot services? I
> have oneshots doing things that might fail, like configuring network
> interfaces or inserting modules, and I'd like those failure messages to
> go somewhere useful as the longrun messages do. If I just add
> a logging service to a oneshot with producer-for/consumer-for I get
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> s6-rc-compile: fatal: longrun wlan.module-log declares a producer
> wlan.module of type oneshot
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> so I guess that's not the answer ...
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> What am I missing? I guess I could convert them into longruns that do
> the "up" actions then call pause(2), but that seems a bit of a
> ... non-traditional approach?
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> -dan
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