On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Luke Diamand <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying to write a ./run file for autofs which will wait for ypbind to
> come up before starting autofs.
>
> I've got a line in autofs/run that says:
>
>   sv check ypbind
>
> and then a ./check script inside the ypbind directory which runs ypwhich.
>

>From http://smarden.org/runit/sv.8.html we get this snippet: "If the
requested state of the service is *up*, and the script *./check* exists in
the service directory, *sv* runs this script to check whether the service
is up and running; it’s considered to be up if *./check* exits with 0."

So you need a "sv start ypbind" before you can "sv check ypbind".

Does your check script look like this?

timeout 1 ypwhich


The manpage for ypwhich says that the command returns a name, which implies
a string inside of a shell.

Try this:

SERVERNAME=$(ypwhich)
test -n $SERVERNAME && exit 0
exit 1

...or something like that.  I am working under the assumption that ypwhich
returns a blank string if there is no server.

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