Re: runit-1.0.0 release

[Stefan Karrmann <sk@mathematik.uni-ulm.de>]

Gerrit Pape (Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:15:23PM +0000):
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:04:40PM -0300, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> > Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > >On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:15:10PM -0300, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> > >i'm just waiting for the last basic tools of sysvinit, for some
> > >What exactly are they?  I think runit is rather complete, you don't
> > >necessarily need pidof or local login accounting.  Also sulogin is not
> > >mandatory, you could also use some getty, e.g. fgetty.
> 
> > i don't know how fghack works but can i use it to warranty the restart
> > of the daemon if it crashes? can i use it to kill the daemon when needed?

AFAIR, it opens a bunch of pipes, spawns the real demon and exits if ALL
pipes are closed in the demon. This happens normally on its death.
fghack might pass signals to the demon.

> > i have...
> > echo 'Waiting for services to stop...'
> > svwaitdown -xk -t350 /service/*
> > 
> > and i got a *very* unconfortable state when one box had to reboot but it
> > passed the whole weekend in stage 3 just because one damn user didn't
> > close his ssh client.

Try svwaitdown -xk -t450 /service/*/log

You may loose some log messages from slow grandchild demons.

Sincerly,
-- 
Stefan