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Robin Bowes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm about to migrate to runit from daemontools (for licensing reasons).
> 
> Can I just confirm that it is as simple as :
> 
> 1. Install runit
> 2. Create /var/service
> 3. Add to start up (inittab on linux or /etc/rc.local on FreeBSD)
> 4. Re-read inittab (Linux) or reboot (FreeBSD)
> 
> Am I right in thinking that my current scripts should run OK using runsv
> instead of supervise?
> 
> Are there runit equivalents of all daemontools binaries, specifically
> tai64nlocal (I am assuming that sv == svc, svlogd == multilog) ?

One thing I've just found out:

To run daemontools *and* run it at the same time (on Linux) it is
necessary to change the ID at the beginning of the line in inittab, e.g.:

# daemontools
SV:123456:respawn:/command/svscanboot

# runit
SX:123456:respawn:/sbin/runsvdir-start

I initially tried this with both lines starting with "SV" and only
daemontools ran.

R.