G. Pape runit The chpst program learned a new option -b to run a program with a different name as the 0th argument. No further action from you is required. The default directory for services is now /service/ , and no longer /var/service/ . To be consistent with the new default location, create a symlink when upgrading # ln -s /var/service / When installing runit on a system that should comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), neither /service/ nor /var/service/ should be chosen, but /etc/service/ . It is recommended to create a compatibility symlink /service pointing to /etc/service in this case. The runit program, the process no 1, has been fixed to reap dead processes that re-parented to process no 1 (zombies) more thoroughly. Instructions on how to run runit with upstart as init scheme have been added, svlogd has been changed to use a new source port for each log ...