On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 22:31:12 -0300
Guillermo <gdiazhartu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2017-06-28 14:40 GMT-03:00 Steve Litt:
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:53:50 +0000 "Laurent Bercot" wrote:  
> >>
> >>   The problem with the runit model is that it is pure supervision -
> >> it does not provide service management. You have to run all your
> >> oneshots _before_ you can start longruns.  
> >
> > Not necessarily true. You can easily run longruns early by creating
> > a second service directory and a second link directory. You make the
> > service specific directory, create run script and the supervise
> > directory within it, and symlink like the following:
> >
> > ln -s /etc/sv2/gnumeric /var/svlink/gnumeric
> >
> > Then do the following:
> >
> > runsv /etc/svlink/gnumeric  
> 
> But then you end up with an unsupervised runsv process, disconnected
> from the rest of the supervision tree...

I'm not sure about the unsupervised part of it, but I know if the
executable ends another one is run within a second, and I know that you
can turn the executable on and off with 

sv [up|down] /var/svlink/gnumeric
 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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