Re: check script

[Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Gerrit Pape wrote:

>
> See http://smarden.org/runit/sv.8.html
I knew it had to be somewhere!
BTW, the main page http://smarden.org/runit/ doesn't have a link to
the program socklog-check. Is there a reason for this, or was it just an
overlook?
>
> It's run by 'sv start|restart|force-restart|check' and 'sv -v up'
> to check whether the service is up and functional, and not only the
> service daemon started.  Here it checks whether a program is listening
> on /dev/log.
>
> The ./check script is optional, and good for service dependencies.  For
> services that run service daemons that use syslog() to write log
> messages, 'sv start socklog-unix || exit' should be added to the run
> script, to make sure that no log messages are lost on bootup because the
> service daemon calls syslog() before the socklog-unix service actually
> is listening on /dev/log.
>
> HTH, Gerrit.
>
Thanks,

Jorge