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subdirectory of <em>servicedir</em>. <em>servicedir</em> itself can be read-only,
but both <em>servicedir</em><tt>/supervise</tt> and <em>servicedir</em><tt>/event</tt>
need to be read-write. </li>
+ <li> If <em>servicedir</em> is read-only, then the <a href="s6-svc.html">s6-svc</a>
+<tt>-D</tt> and <tt>-U</tt> commands will not work properly since s6-supervise will
+be unable to create or delete a <em>servicedir<em><tt>/down</tt> file; in this case
+s6-supervise will print a warning on stderr, and perform the equivalent of <tt>-d</tt>
+and <tt>-u</tt> instead, but will be unable to change the permanent service
+configuration. </li>
</ul>
<h2> Implementation notes </h2>