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On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Charlie Brady wrote:

>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>
>>  I'm trying to setup the network "service" with a run script like this:
>>    #!/bin/bash
>>    exec 2>&1
>>    echo "*** Bringing up network..."
>>    # wait for ulogd...
>>    exec /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifup eth0
>>
>>  The system is LFS. The finish script will just "touch down".
>
> That won't do what you think it will do. runsv only looks for the down file 
> when it first starts up. Perhaps you want "sv down ." in the finish script.
>
>
Thank you, it's an important point, and easy to fix!
As for the other part of my post (sv check...), I think the "requested
state" is the state the service (ulogd) is supposed to be in (as in
"want up", etc), and it's not something to include in the sv command.
Can someone confirm this?
-- 
Jorge Almeida