Managing services with SYSMGR

sysmgr is an alternative service supervisor written in POSIX sh. It is similar in usage to runit.

Installation

Begin by first verifying that you have sysmgr installed.

# Available in the Community repository.
$ kiss b sysmgr && kiss i sysmgr

Basic usage

As mentioned above, the usage of sysmgr is similar to runit.

See svctl(1) for more usage information.

Running sysmgr on startup

sysmgr can be run at boot via /etc/inittab or a hook in /etc/rc.d.

# Enabling on inittab
::respawn:/usr/bin/sysmgr

# Enabling from /etc/rc.d/sysmgr.boot
while :; do /usr/bin/sysmgr; done &

Switching from runit

In order to switch from runit to sysmgr, copy the contents of the /var/service directory to /var/sysmgr, and the same for /etc/sv to /etc/sysmgr.

# Create the service directory for sysmgr
$ mkdir -p /etc/sysmgr

# Copy runit services
for service in /etc/sv/*; do
    cp "$service/run" "/etc/sysmgr/${service##*/}"
done

# Copy all enabled services
for service in /var/service/*; do
    ln -sf /etc/sysmgr/${service##*/} /var/sysmgr
done