On Wednesday 12 July 2006 10:20, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 08:59:45PM -0500, Kevin wrote:
> > We have some services that have come to depend on behavior of
> > svwaitup/svwaitdown to work.  As these are no longer built since
> > runit-1.4.0, we're starting to face a problem, since we use the
> > Debian packaged version:
> >
> > sv -w 1000000 -v check <service> seems to return immediately.  We
> > have no way to indefinitely block a service from starting without
> > replacing this functionality with extra code that used to already
> > exist, to our knowledge.
> >
> > Are we missing something?
>
> I'm not sure what exactly you used the svwait* programs for, so I
> cannot say whether or how it works with 'sv check/start/stop'.
>
> Regards, Gerrit.

We cannot make sv block like svwaitup did.  Either we're misunderstanding 
how to use it, or something.

An example service script is included below:

#!/bin/sh
svwaitup ~/service/sfsagent
exec chpst -e env runthis.sh