New version of this run script attached with the following improvements:
1) Let user override socket path env/socket.
2) Avoid fork and exec of readlink executable if /dev/log is not a
symlink.
diff --git a/debian/service/socklog-unix/run b/debian/service/socklog-unix/run
index d98e29d..6e1d884 100755
--- a/debian/service/socklog-unix/run
+++ b/debian/service/socklog-unix/run
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/usr/bin/env /lib/runit/invoke-run
exec 2>&1
-exec chpst -U _socklog-unix socklog unix /dev/log
+
+# The Listening socket path can be overriden by writing it into a file
+# named env/socket under the service directory.
+
+if [ -z ${socket+_} ] &&
+ [ -h /dev/log ] &&
+ [ "$(readlink /dev/log)" = "/run/systemd/journal/dev-log" ]
+then
+ socket=/run/systemd/journal/syslog
+fi
+
+exec chpst -U _socklog-unix socklog unix "${socket:-/dev/log}"
#!/usr/bin/env /lib/runit/invoke-run
exec 2>&1
# The Listening socket path can be overriden by writing it into a file
# named env/socket under the service directory.
if [ -z ${socket+_} ] &&
[ -h /dev/log ] &&
[ "$(readlink /dev/log)" = "/run/systemd/journal/dev-log" ]
then
socket=/run/systemd/journal/syslog
fi
exec chpst -U _socklog-unix socklog unix "${socket:-/dev/log}"
