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John Butler <imtall@gmail.com> wrote:
> if you get the error "unable to open supervise/ok: file does not
> exist", make sure you are running runsvdir:
>
> 	runsvdir /var/service &

You shouldn't do that from your interactive shell, though.  You should
add runsvdir to your system startup scripts, as described in the
documentation:
http://smarden.org/runit/useinit.html


paul