starting and stopping services with daemontools svc command

Submitted by admin on October 12, 2006 - 5:27pm

How to start a service with deamontools' svc command.

I am assuming that the usual /service directory exists and
all commands below are issued there!

To start up qmail-smtpd for example:

$cd /service
$svc -u qmail-smtpd

To check the service was brought up sucessfuly issue:

$svstat qmail-smtpd
qmail-smtpd: up (pid 1073) 6568 seconds

To stop a service, issue:

$svc -d qmail-smtpd

check if it is indeed down:

$svstat qmail-smtpd

I like to check all my services at once with a wildcard:

$svstat *
imaps: up (pid 1071) 6603 seconds
qmail-send: up (pid 1077) 6602 seconds
qmail-smtpd: up (pid 1073) 6603 seconds