daemon under runit?

[Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net>]

Hello,

I'm struggling with a program that, in many cases, forks to become a
daemon, that I'd like to run under runit (1.7.1). So far, I tried to
start the program in the run script, then wait in a 'finish' script for
it, and also have a control/t script to kill it if someone says
something like "sv down service". Unfortunately, in most cases, this
does not seem to work - the control/t script is not accessed when I
issue 'sv down service' (as "ls -lta" shows). One of the problems is
that the file supervise/pid contains the pid of the finish script in
case the program forked, no longer the pid of the daemon itself. I
hoped to achieve something similar to fghack (from daemontools), but so
far failed.

This is on Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18.


Any ideas are _very_ welcome!


Best,
--Toni++