On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:44:54 +0100
Jan Olszak <jan.olszak_at_vestiacom.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm developing a daemon that will:
> - start/stop
> - send signals
> - check status
> of some services.
>
> This can be done via s6-svc or s6-svstat but:
> 1. Can I use the underlying calls from libs6?
> 2. Is this interface likely to change?
I use runit, but as I remember from the little s6 that I did, s6 is
functionally speaking a superset of runit.
If I were going to develop a daemon like you suggest, I'd just use the
executables bestowed by the process supervisor. For instance:
Start = sv up servicename
stop = sv down servicename
restart = sv down servicename;sv up servicename
status check = sv status servicename
The output of sv status can be parsed to get whether it's running, and
if so its PID so you can use kill to send it the desired signal.
Why can't your daemon be a simple shellscript?
SteveT
Steve Litt
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Received on Wed Jan 20 2016 - 00:03:49 UTC