replacing Upstart with Runit making me nutz...

Akonbobot · 07-15-2008, 12:34 AM

Hi.

I'm all googled out trying to figure out the right way
to 'Supervise Services' on Hardy Ubuntu.

Apparently, I need to use 'runit' to acomplish this, but
Ubuntu doesn't use /etc/inittab in the traditional system,
using 'upstart' instead.

These are shown in the repositories;
- runit
- runit-services
- runit-run

Could someone please point me to a decent howto to replace/setup
a decent management of services for Hardy-Ubuntu ?

Thank you.

gsker · 07-15-2008, 08:32 AM

Would this not be a solution to your problem?

http://blog.hjksolutions.com/article...t-with-upstart

I don't use runit, I just use sysv-rc-conf which allows me to start and stop services and set which runlevel they start in.

HTH

Akonbobot · 07-15-2008, 02:41 PM

>>Would this not be a solution to your problem?
>>http://blog.hjksolutions.com/article...t-with-upstart

Thank you but this is a fix to get runit working.

Most importantly, is;
- runit
- runit-services
- runit-run

the 'best' way to 'Supervise'... restart a service if failed.

For example,
If you want 'sshd' always to be up and running, and restart
automatically, is there a more simple method 'other' than
creating a script to run with either runit or upstart ?

Thanks.
Akonbobot

gsker · 07-15-2008, 04:42 PM

I'm sorry. I thought you were asking how to get runit working since it seems to be what you want. "a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision"

Other than that I'm going to be of no help.