Hello Spenser, You could just install e.g. runit and use it to run quark.
With Debian it would be the 'runit-run' package. Best Regards, Georg On 5/30/23 04:37, Spenser Truex wrote:
My $10/yr VPS host Racknerd ungraciously requires that I'd make a support ticket in order to get a custom ISO for my VPS. I think I'd rather suffer and die. Fun awaits? Maybe I can collect a pile of .service files for some suckless programs? Quark has a slightly complex set of behaviours that make systemd not boot it. I think systemd sockets and systemd chroot shenanegains are involved here. It "starts" but causes systemd to hang on the systemctl start quark command. The socket doesn't open -- quark seems to be blocked in some way. Unbound has a similar issue, and it too has a chroot startup which is explicitly defined in their systemD service file on debian, but the unbound official recommendation is to use whatever magic code the program can run to install itself. And they recommend deleting the socket-related bits in the systemd service files directory. Despite this, I tried just copying the unbound config but wasn't able to get it to work. SystemD doesn't tell you why it doesn't work (please pay redhat instead for help installing programs on your VPS!). I hope to succeed on my quest for the Holy Grail in this desolate land.
