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On Thu, 9 May 2013, Peter Hickman wrote:

> Thanks but it would seem that Centos 5.8 does not have an /etc/init
> directory only an /etc/init.d

Sorry, my bad. I was thinking of rhel6/centos6.

> 
> But thanks to your hint I have found the command that does the work
> 
> # cat runsvdir-start
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> 
> exec env - PATH=$PATH \
> runsvdir -P /etc/service 'log:
> ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................'
> 
> Now all I need to do is turn this into an init.d script

You can add this in /etc/inittab:

sv:345:respawn:/etc/runit/2