unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

[John Butler]

Hello,

I need some help. I've done my best to figure this out on my own, but  
my own wits, Google, and the mailing list archives haven't helped yet.

I've followed all the directions on the runit FAQ package for a new  
service. My "run" script is the following:

	#!/bin/bash

	lighttpd -D -f /usr/local/sites/snapshot/lighttpd.conf

But when I run:

	sv start lighttpd

I get:

	warning: lighttpd: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

I'm running CentOS. Here is the uname string (if it's helpful)

Linux xxx.xxx.xxx 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Mar 8 00:27:03 CST 2006  
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


I've running all of this as root. Executing the run script manually  
works fine ( no errors reported ). I tried re-installing runit, but  
that didn't help either. Any help or just clues where to look next  
would be awesomely appreciated.

Thanks!

-John

Re: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

[Alex Efros]

Hi!

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:31:34PM -0700, John Butler wrote:
> 	warning: lighttpd: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

Looks like you doesn't run `runsv` for this service. This may happens
because of many reasons, for example you forget to create symlink from
your directory with services (and ./run files) into directory with active
services (which you give as param to `runsvdir` which should be running now):

    ln -s /service/your_service/ /var/service/

(directories in this example may differ from yours).

-- 
			WBR, Alex.

Re: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

[John Butler]

Thanks for your quick help. I feel kinda dumb now though. So for  
anyone else who does the same thing as me in the future, if you get  
the error "unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist", make  
sure you are running runsvdir:

	runsvdir /var/service &

Pretty simple. After that everything worked fine. Thanks!

-John

On Aug 5, 2006, at 1:22 AM, Alex Efros wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:31:34PM -0700, John Butler wrote:
>> 	warning: lighttpd: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
>
> Looks like you doesn't run `runsv` for this service. This may happens
> because of many reasons, for example you forget to create symlink from
> your directory with services (and ./run files) into directory with  
> active
> services (which you give as param to `runsvdir` which should be  
> running now):
>
>     ln -s /service/your_service/ /var/service/
>
> (directories in this example may differ from yours).
>
> -- 
> 			WBR, Alex.

Re: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

[Paul Jarc]

John Butler <john@likealightbulb.com> wrote:
> My "run" script is the following:
>
> 	#!/bin/bash
>
> 	lighttpd -D -f /usr/local/sites/snapshot/lighttpd.conf

Make that "exec lighttpd ...", otherwise you won't be able to send
signals to the right process.


paul

Re: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

[Paul Jarc]

John Butler <imtall@gmail.com> wrote:
> if you get the error "unable to open supervise/ok: file does not
> exist", make sure you are running runsvdir:
>
> 	runsvdir /var/service &

You shouldn't do that from your interactive shell, though.  You should
add runsvdir to your system startup scripts, as described in the
documentation:
http://smarden.org/runit/useinit.html


paul