On Fri, 19 May 2017 00:02:00 +0200
Luis Ressel <aranea_at_aixah.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2017 16:28:17 -0500
> Robert Hill <hilljamesrobert_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The overview for s6-rc
> > <http://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/overview.html> mentions that:
> >
> > > the chosen init should make sure that a s6 supervision tree is up
> > > and running. s6-rc will only work if there is an active s6-svscan
> > > process monitoring a scan directory.
> >
> > This is a little confusing to me, and I am sure I am not
> > understanding correctly. If s6-svscan is monitoring a scan
> > directory, won't all the processes in that scan directory already
> > have been started by the s6-supervise instances that get started by
> > s6-svscan? I would like to use s6-rc to start all services and s6
> > to supervise them once started.
>
> Yes, when your init exec's into s6-svscan, it will immediately start
> all services in the scandir (unless the corresponding servicedir
> contains a down file).
>
> However, the scandir will typically be empty at this point (it may
> contain an early getty service). It is only populated with services
> once you call s6-rc-init (to be exact, s6-rc-init creates the
> servicedirs in /run/s6-rc/servicedirs and then symlinks them into the
> scandir). s6-svscan will still not start the services, though, since
> all the servicedirs created by s6-rc-init will contain a down file.
> They will only be started once you call s6-rc -u change ok-all (ok-all
> being the s6-rc bundle containing all your services).
This sounds something like the way I incorporated determinate startup
order to daemontools, runit and s6 using LittKit:
http://troubleshooters.com/projects/littkit/README
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/suckless_init_on_plop.htm#littkit_introduction
If you're using down files to determine startup order, do you have a
different filename (LittKit calls it 'reallydown") to take over the
former functionality of the down file (to make the service down for
awhile, through reboots)?
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt
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http://www.troubleshooters.com/28
Received on Fri May 19 2017 - 01:32:11 UTC