Re: non-daemon services/scripts as dependancies

[Rehan Khan <rehan.khan@dsl.pipex.com>]

Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision <at> budge.apana.org.au> writes:

> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 

"sv d ." - ok that looks good, I'll try it. Didn't know that could be done.

yup, Runit doesn't have a notification feature. I could use something like 
that though. I guess I will have to try doing it some other way.

Thanks
R