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      9 <a href='http://smarden.org/pape/'>G. Pape</a><br><a href='index.html'>runit</A><hr><p>
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     11 <h2><a name='sect0'>Name</a></h2>
     12 runsv - starts and monitors a service and optionally an appendant log
     13 service 
     14 <h2><a name='sect1'>Synopsis</a></h2>
     15 <b>runsv</b> <i>service</i> 
     16 <h2><a name='sect2'>Description</a></h2>
     17 <i>service</i> must be a directory. <p>
     18 <b>runsv</b>
     19 switches to the directory <i>service</i> and starts ./run. If ./run exits and ./finish
     20 exists, <b>runsv</b> starts ./finish. If ./finish doesn&rsquo;t exist or ./finish exits,
     21 <b>runsv</b> restarts ./run. <p>
     22 If ./run or ./finish exit immediately, <b>runsv</b> waits a
     23 second before starting ./finish or restarting ./run. <p>
     24 Two arguments are given
     25 to ./finish. The first one is ./run&rsquo;s exit code, or -1 if ./run didn&rsquo;t exit normally.
     26 The second one is the least significant byte of the exit status as determined
     27 by <i><b>waitpid</b>(2)</i>; for instance it is 0 if ./run exited normally, and the signal
     28 number if ./run was terminated by a signal. If <b>runsv</b> cannot start ./run for
     29 some reason, the exit code is 111 and the status is 0. <p>
     30 If the file <i>service</i>/down
     31 exists, <b>runsv</b> does not start ./run immediately. The control interface (see
     32 below) can be used to start the service and to give other commands to <b>runsv</b>.
     33 <p>
     34 If the directory <i>service</i>/log exists, <b>runsv</b> creates a pipe, redirects <i>service</i>/run&rsquo;s
     35 and <i>service</i>/finish&rsquo;s standard output to the pipe, switches to the directory
     36 <i>service</i>/log and starts ./run (and ./finish) exactly as described above for
     37 the <i>service</i> directory. The standard input of the log service is redirected
     38 to read from the pipe. <p>
     39 <b>runsv</b> maintains status information in a binary format
     40 (compatible to the daemontools&rsquo; <b>supervise</b> program) in <i>service</i>/supervise/status
     41 and <i>service</i>/log/supervise/status, and in a human-readable format in <i>service</i>/supervise/stat,
     42 <i>service</i>/log/supervise/stat, <i>service</i>/supervise/pid, <i>service</i>/log/supervise/pid.
     43 
     44 <h2><a name='sect3'>Control</a></h2>
     45 The named pipes <i>service</i>/supervise/control, and (optionally) <i>service</i>/log/supervise/control
     46 are provided to give commands to <b>runsv</b>. You can use <i><b>sv</b>(8)</i> to control the
     47 service or just write one of the following characters to the named pipe:
     48 
     49 <dl>
     50 
     51 <dt><b>u</b> </dt>
     52 <dd>Up. If the service is not running, start it. If the service stops, restart
     53 it. </dd>
     54 
     55 <dt><b>d</b> </dt>
     56 <dd>Down. If the service is running, send it a TERM signal, and then a
     57 CONT signal. If ./run exits, start ./finish if it exists. After it stops, do
     58 not restart service. </dd>
     59 
     60 <dt><b>o</b> </dt>
     61 <dd>Once. If the service is not running, start it. Do not
     62 restart it if it stops. </dd>
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     64 <dt><b>p</b> </dt>
     65 <dd>Pause. If the service is running, send it a STOP
     66 signal. </dd>
     67 
     68 <dt><b>c</b> </dt>
     69 <dd>Continue. If the service is running, send it a CONT signal. </dd>
     70 
     71 <dt><b>h</b> </dt>
     72 <dd>Hangup.
     73 If the service is running, send it a HUP signal. </dd>
     74 
     75 <dt><b>a</b> </dt>
     76 <dd>Alarm. If the service
     77 is running, send it a ALRM signal. </dd>
     78 
     79 <dt><b>i</b> </dt>
     80 <dd>Interrupt. If the service is running,
     81 send it a INT signal. </dd>
     82 
     83 <dt><b>q</b> </dt>
     84 <dd>Quit. If the service is running, send it a QUIT signal. </dd>
     85 
     86 <dt><b>1</b> </dt>
     87 <dd>User-defined 1. If the service is running, send it a USR1 signal. </dd>
     88 
     89 <dt><b>2</b> </dt>
     90 <dd>User-defined 2. If the service is running, send it a USR2 signal. </dd>
     91 
     92 <dt><b>t</b> </dt>
     93 <dd>Terminate. If the service
     94 is running, send it a TERM signal. </dd>
     95 
     96 <dt><b>k</b> </dt>
     97 <dd>Kill. If the service is running, send
     98 it a KILL signal. </dd>
     99 
    100 <dt><b>x</b> </dt>
    101 <dd>Exit. If the service is running, send it a TERM signal,
    102 and then a CONT signal. Do not restart the service. If the service is down,
    103 and no log service exists, <b>runsv</b> exits. If the service is down and a log
    104 service exists, <b>runsv</b> closes the standard input of the log service, and
    105 waits for it to terminate. If the log service is down, <b>runsv</b> exits. This
    106 command is ignored if it is given to <i>service</i>/log/supervise/control. </dd>
    107 </dl>
    108 <p>
    109 Example:
    110 to send a TERM signal to the socklog-unix service, either do   # sv term
    111 /service/socklog-unix<br>
    112   or<br>
    113    # printf t &gt;/service/socklog-unix/supervise/control<br>
    114  <p>
    115 <i><b>printf</b>(1)</i> usually blocks if no <b>runsv</b> process is running in the service
    116 directory. 
    117 <h2><a name='sect4'>Customize Control</a></h2>
    118 For each control character <i>c</i> sent to the control
    119 pipe, <b>runsv</b> first checks if <i>service</i>/control/<i>c</i> exists and is executable.
    120 If so, it starts <i>service</i>/control/<i>c</i> and waits for it to terminate, before
    121 interpreting the command. If the program exits with return code 0, <b>runsv</b>
    122 refrains from sending the service the corresponding signal. The command
    123 <i>o</i> is always considered as command <i>u</i>. On command <i>d</i> first <i>service</i>/control/<i>t</i>
    124 is checked, and then <i>service</i>/control/<i>d</i>. On command <i>x</i> first <i>service</i>/control/<i>t</i>
    125 is checked, and then <i>service</i>/control/<i>x</i>. The control of the optional log
    126 service cannot be customized. 
    127 <h2><a name='sect5'>Signals</a></h2>
    128 If <b>runsv</b> receives a TERM signal, it
    129 acts as if the character x was written to the control pipe. 
    130 <h2><a name='sect6'>Exit Codes</a></h2>
    131 <b>runsv</b>
    132 exits 111 on an error on startup or if another <b>runsv</b> is running in <i>service</i>.
    133 <p>
    134 <b>runsv</b> exits 0 if it was told to exit. 
    135 <h2><a name='sect7'>See Also</a></h2>
    136 <i>sv(8)</i>, <i>chpst(8)</i>, <i>svlogd(8)</i>,
    137 <i>runit(8)</i>, <i>runit-init(8)</i>, <i>runsvdir(8)</i>, <i>runsvchdir(8)</i>, <i>utmpset(8)</i> <p>
    138 <i>http://smarden.org/runit/</i>
    139 
    140 <h2><a name='sect8'>Author</a></h2>
    141 Gerrit Pape &lt;pape@smarden.org&gt; <p>
    142 
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    144 <a name='toc'><b>Table of Contents</b></a><p>
    145 <ul>
    146 <li><a name='toc0' href='#sect0'>Name</a></li>
    147 <li><a name='toc1' href='#sect1'>Synopsis</a></li>
    148 <li><a name='toc2' href='#sect2'>Description</a></li>
    149 <li><a name='toc3' href='#sect3'>Control</a></li>
    150 <li><a name='toc4' href='#sect4'>Customize Control</a></li>
    151 <li><a name='toc5' href='#sect5'>Signals</a></li>
    152 <li><a name='toc6' href='#sect6'>Exit Codes</a></li>
    153 <li><a name='toc7' href='#sect7'>See Also</a></li>
    154 <li><a name='toc8' href='#sect8'>Author</a></li>
    155 </ul>
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