RE: using runit as init

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

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, rehan khan wrote:

>
> Although the dummy process resolves this particular problem it's not
> very clean.

"this particular problem"? You haven't quoted anything, so we don't know 
which particular problem is.

> I would prefer not to have processes knocking about which do
> nothing.

I'm guessing you are referring to my suggestion of a program which calls 
paus().

> Putting an 'sv d .' in the finish script seems to be the best solution
> to run once scripts run by runsvdir.

Yes, that sounds reasonable. That wouldn't be usable with daemontools, 
however. It also means that 'sv t .' would be a no-op, so wouldn't be 
usable with an init script wrapper which translated "service thing 
restart" to 'sv t /service/thing".

> I still think that a mechanism built into the runsvdir to handle run 
> once scripts would be better.

Perhaps.