Re: [PLUG] LINUX ADMIN ADVICE

[Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 2:27 PM Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> Observe the following runit run script:
>
> =====================================================
> #!/bin/sh
> if network_up; then
>   exec thedaemon --forground
> fi
> sleep 1
> =====================================================
>

Wow, that is equivalent to 1 line in a service unit (or more likely
about 15 characters more on an existing line), except that for systemd
that unit would also start the service on boot, and also shut down the
daemon when the network is down.  No need to sleep at the end
either...

-- 
Rich
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