Re: Option for runsv/runsvdir to specify how many times to restart a service in a certain time period before giving up?

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:41:32PM +0200, Alex Efros wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:52:42PM +0000, Alex Smith wrote:
> > Ok, I could try to write something like this myself, but just one 
> > question - if the services is running ./finish, what does sv start try 
> > to do? I mean, the documentation on runit's website says to use sv start 
> > for dependencies. If a service is started that runs sv start 
> > some_service, and some_service is running ./finish, what would happen?
> 
> Hmm. That's interesting question. I suppose nothing is happens - if
> ./finish hangs then runsv will just wait until it exit.

sv will wait for the service to become done (for ./finish to terminate),
and to then to be up again (./run running, and using ./check if
available), or report timeout.

> Maybe sending TERM (or any other signal) to service using `sv t` will send
> it to ./finish script if ./finish is running now instead of ./run, but
> I'm not sure.

No, it's not sending TERM to finish, see
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/270/focus=272

Regards, Gerrit.