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* Lasse Kliemann <lasse-list-supervision-2007@plastictree.net> [20071010 14:57]:
> I'd like to run a bunch of services in a kind of sub-hierarchy under 
> `/service/sub'; more precisely the service in `/service/sub' shall be something 
> like runsvdir managing services in a directory `/service/sub/service'.
> 
> The naive approach was to let `/service/sub/run' be like this:
> 
>    #!/bin/sh
>    exec runsvdir service
> 
> One problem with this is that bringing down all services in 
> `/service/sub/services' involves something like
> 
>    sv o /service/sub ; sv h /service/sub

What's wrong with 'sv h /service/sub/services/*' ?

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/svscan.html
"svscan is designed to run forever."

The same applies to runsvdir; if you need to stop it, you are doing
something wrong.

qvb
--
pica