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On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:16:31PM +0100, Nicholas J Humfrey wrote:
> Something I have be thinking about writing for quite a long time is a  
> curses based interface for monitoring and controlled a directory of  
> services. Would basically be the output of "runsvstat /var/service/*"  
> with a cursor to to choose a service to send control signals to.
> 
> Does such a thing already exist? - anyone have any thoughts on such a  
> thing ?

I think this would be a useful tool to illustrate the power of runit to
those who aren't familiar with it yet. Just be sure to leave it taking
the path to the services (/var/service) as an argument. Or at least
allow overriding the default though command line arguments.