Re: pkg/52861 (Adding an rc file to syncthing.)

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/52861; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/52861 (Adding an rc file to syncthing.)
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 14:02:54 -0400

 David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
 
 >  On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 03:45:01PM +0000, Greg Troxel wrote:
 >   >  One of the reasons I hesitated to add an rc.d script is that syncthing
 >   >  is not clearly a system daemon vs. a user daemon.   And if it's a user
 >   >  daemon, then there should be able to be an instance per user.   So a
 >   >  variable scheme that admits possibly many users is in order, something
 >   >  like
 >   >  
 >   >  syncthing_users="alice bob charlie"
 >   >  syncthing_home.alice = /home/alice
 >   >  [and so on]
 >   >  
 >   >  And this is a specific case of users starting up programs at boot, for
 >   >  which there should be a more general mechanism.  On NetBSD, @reboot in
 >   >  crontab might be that, or might not.  For pkgsrc in general with rc.d,
 >   >  crontab features don't address the issue.
 >  
 >  This is something for which base needs (or would need) a mechanism and
 >  it isn't the job of pkgsrc to improvise a halfassed solution...
 
 I didn't actually propose a solution (merely noted that the issue exists
 and gave an example config to hint at scope), so there's no need to
 cast aspersions.
 
 Part of the reason I hesitated is that indeed there should be a more
 general approach, and doing that right seemed like too much work.