From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1584 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charlie Brady Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: non-daemon services/scripts as dependancies Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:27:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199053653 13101 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2007 22:27:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:27:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org To: Rehan Khan Original-X-From: supervision-return-1819-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Sun Dec 30 23:27:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J96dI-0002gs-EU for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:27:48 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 1039 invoked by uid 76); 30 Dec 2007 22:27:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 1033 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2007 22:27:31 -0000 X-X-Sender: charlieb@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com In-Reply-To: Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1584 Archived-At: On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Rehan Khan wrote: > One of the main issues I am tussling with is tasks that *can* be implemented > as non-supervised services and must run only once. There does not seem to be a > simple/universal way to tell runsvdir to run a service only once ... Create a run script which does it's thing, and then finally does "sv d .". > (and not > expect it to run a continuous process and if it returns succesfully on that > first run then to tell other services that the service ran successfully. Last I looked runit had no such notification feature.