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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2026-06-09 03:54:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2026-06-09 03:54:33 +0000 |
| commit | e7dc6510922fc3ed14df061a1bac552da59b62e9 (patch) | |
| tree | c0c4c0496feeff650c5544b5e7d9b2b43b08e6a2 /doc/s6-frontend.conf.html | |
| parent | 86d072b07cff432b3ab558ab6747260828bec192 (diff) | |
| download | s6-frontend-e7dc6510922fc3ed14df061a1bac552da59b62e9.tar.gz | |
Change default storelist and configuration file
Default storelist becomes /usr/share/s6/sources:/etc/s6/sources
Default configuration file becomes /etc/s6.conf
Conffile environment variable becomes S6_CONF
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diff --git a/doc/s6-frontend.conf.html b/doc/s6-frontend.conf.html deleted file mode 100644 index 2f3eea2..0000000 --- a/doc/s6-frontend.conf.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,105 +0,0 @@ -<html> - <head> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> - <meta name="color-scheme" content="dark light" /> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" /> - <title>s6-frontend: the s6-frontend.conf configuration file</title> - <meta name="Description" content="s6-frontend: the s6-frontend.conf configuration file" /> - <meta name="Keywords" content="s6-frontend.conf s6-frontend configuration file execline variable" /> - <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//skarnet.org/default.css" /> --> - </head> -<body> - -<p> -<a href="index.html">s6-frontend</a><br /> -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br /> -<a href="//skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a> -</p> - -<h1> The <tt>/etc/s6-frontend.conf</tt> configuration file </h1> - -<h2 id="goal"> Goal and usage </h2> - -<p> - <tt>/etc/s6-frontend.conf</tt> is a configuration file provided by the -distribution, or written by the system administrator, defining various -settings for the <a href="s6.html">s6</a> commands, as well as the default -policies of an s6-based system (i.e. where various directories and files -are located). -</p> - -<p> - For instance, this is what allows the -<a href="s6_process_restart#restart">s6 process restart foobar</a> command to send -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-svc.html">s6-svc -r</a> to the -<em>foobar</em> service without the user needing to type, or even remember, -what the full path to the <em>foobar</em> service directory is. -</p> - -<h2 id="description"> Description </h2> - -<p> -The <tt>/etc/s6-frontend.conf</tt> file follows the -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/execline/envfile.html#syntax">envfile syntax</a>: -simple <code>key = value</code> lines, comments permitted. -</p> - -<p> - If a value is left empty, the compiled-in default is used. -</p> - -<p> - The variables that can be set are the following: -</p> - -<dl> -<dt> scandir </dt> -<dd> The directory where <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-svscan.html">s6-svscan</a> -is running. -The default is <tt>/run/service</tt> (possibly overridden by the <tt>--scandir</tt> build-time configure option to -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/">s6-linux-init</a> or to -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-frontend/">s6-frontend</a>). </dd> - -<dt> livedir </dt> -<dd> The directory hosting the live service database managed by -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/s6-rc.html">s6-rc</a>. -The default is <tt>/run/s6-rc</tt> (possibly overridden by the <tt>--livedir</tt> build-time configure option to -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/">s6-rc</a> or to -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-frontend/">s6-frontend</a>). </dd> - -<dt> repodir </dt> -<dd> The directory hosting the repository of service sets managed by the -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/repodefs.html">s6-rc <em>repo</em> commands</a>. -The default is <tt>/var/lib/s6-rc/repository</tt> (possibly overridden by the <tt>--repodir</tt> build-time configure option to -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/">s6-rc</a> or to -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-frontend/">s6-frontend</a>). </dd> - -<dt> bootdb </dt> -<dd> The path to the boot-time compiled service database. -The default is <tt>/etc/s6-rc/compiled/current</tt> (possibly overridden by the <tt>--bootdb</tt> build-time configure option to -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/">s6-rc</a> or to -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-frontend/">s6-frontend</a>). </dd> - -<dt> stmpdir </dt> -<dd> A directory suitable for root-only runtime data and temporary files for s6-frontend. -The default is <tt>/run/s6-frontend</tt> (possibly overridden by the <tt>--stmpdir</tt> build-time configure option to -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-frontend/">s6-frontend</a>). </dd> - -<dt> storelist </dt> -<dd> A colon-separated (<tt>:</tt>) list of directories containing the -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/repodefs.html#store">stores</a> of s6-rc service -definition directories. -The default is <tt>/usr/share/s6-frontend/s6-rc/sources:/etc/s6-frontend/s6-rc/sources</tt> -(possibly overridden by the <tt>--storelist</tt> build-time configure option to -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-frontend/">s6-frontend</a>). </dd> - -<dt> verbosity </dt> -<dd> The default verbosity for <a href="s6.html">s6</a> and its invoked commands. 0 is -terse (only print fatal error messages), 1 is normal (print error messages and warnings), -over 1 is increasingly verbose (print informational messages, up to tracing and debug -messages at level 4-5). The default is <strong>1</strong>. </dd> -</dl> - -</body> -</html> |