functions.sh contains these two lines: # daemontools dir SVCDIR="/var/lib/supervise" please remove them, because: 1. such environment variables should go to /etc/env.d/ 2. baselayout doesn't use this variable anywhere else in a daemontools context 3. the path is completely wrong. there are 3 different packages in the tree that use '/service' not '/var/lib/supervise' as SVCDIR: sys-process/daemontools sys-process/daemontools-scripts sys-process/supervise-scripts
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