Re: using runit as init

[Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Mike Buland wrote:

> Finally, if you really do want to start an rc script and make it appear as
> though it were a normal runit system service, then I would reccomend starting
> it in a run script, then executing a command that blocks forever.  The
> service will use effectively no CPU time, but will stay running, forever.

For instance, compile:

main()
{
    pause();
}

into /usr/local/bin/pause, and then have a run script:

#! /bin/sh
do_something_you_care_about
exec /usr/local/bin/pause