Hi Mark, On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:24:28AM +0200, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >You do 'apt-get install git-daemon-run' and have a working git-daemon > >service on your system. What went wrong? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install git-daemon-run > > Installs without errors until the following which are obviously not > fatal but are not so nice to see: > > Setting up git-daemon-run (1.4.4.4-2) ... > Warning: The home dir you specified does not exist. > Adding system user `gitlog' (UID 115) ... > Adding new user `gitlog' (UID 115) with group `nogroup' ... > Not creating home directory `/nonexistent'. > > So now I check to see what's running and find nothing: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps fax | grep git-daemon | grep -v grep > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > So I thought, maybe this package does not start git-daemon by default and > maybe I have to start it by hand:
it should have started it by default, something went wrong, I'm not sure yet what. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/git-daemon start > sudo: /etc/init.d/git-daemon: command not found Newer version of the git-daemon-run package provide the /etc/init.d/git-daemon interface, you're right, users are used to this. > Hmm... Problem[1] is that is that my expectations for a daemon package > (which are based on my experience with *every* other daemon package) don't > apply to this package. Especially as the package description says "This > package provides a git-daemon service." But apparently not. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/share/doc/git-daemon-run/ > changelog.Debian.gz changelog.gz copyright > > Hmmm... Problem[2] No documentation specifying how this service should be > started since the "normal" /etc/init.d script doesn't exist. So I think > maybe that dependency on "runit" gives me something to look at: Ok, it's documented at the wrong place, take a look at /usr/share/doc/git-core/README.Debian. I'll see what I can do to improve this. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo sv start git-daemon-run > fail: git-daemon-run: unable to change to service directory: > file does not exist Please try 'apt-get install --reinstall runit', and check again whether the git-daemon service is activated properly. If not, please post the output of # grep SV /etc/inittab # ls -l /proc/1/exe # ls -lL /proc/1/exe Thanks, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
