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The following is a brief guide on using this capability.
## Use Default start, stop and status functions
* Use Default start, stop and status functions
If you write your own start, stop and status functions in your service
script, none of this will work. You must allow OpenRC to use the default
functions.
If you write your own start, stop and status functions in your service
script, none of this will work. You must allow OpenRC to use the default
functions.
* Daemons must not fork
Any deamon that you would like to have monitored by supervise-daemon
must not fork. Instead, it must stay in the foreground. If the daemon
forks, the supervisor will be unable to monitor it.
## Daemons must not fork
If the daemon can be configured to not fork, this should be done in the
daemon's configuration file, or by adding a command line option that
instructs it not to fork to the command_args_foreground variable shown
below.
Any deamon that you would like to have monitored by supervise-daemon
must not fork. Instead, it must stay in the foreground. If the daemon
itself forks, the supervisor will be unable to monitor it.
If the daemon can be configured to not fork, this should be done in the
daemon's configuration file, or by adding a command line option that
instructs it not to fork to the command_args_foreground variable shown
below.
## Variable Settings
# Variable Settings
The most important setting is the supervisor variable. At the top of
your service script, you should set this variable as follows:
``` sh
supervisor=supervise-daemon
```
Several other variables affect the way services behave under
supervise-daemon. They are documented on the openrc-run man page, but I
will list them here for convenience:
``` sh
pidfile=/pid/of/supervisor.pid
```
If you are using start-stop-daemon to monitor your scripts, the pidfile
is the path to the pidfile the daemon creates. If, on the other hand,
you are using supervise-daemon, this is the path to the pidfile the
supervisor creates.
command_args_foreground should be used if the daemon you want to monitor
``` sh
command_args_foreground="arguments"
```
This should be used if the daemon you want to monitor
forks and goes to the background by default. This should be set to the
command line option that instructs the daemon to stay in the foreground.
This is very early support, so feel free to file bugs if you have
issues.
``` sh
respawn_delay
```
This is the number of seconds to delay before attempting to respawn a
supervised process after it dies unexpectedly.
The default is to respawn immediately.
``` sh
respawn_max=x
```
This is the maximum number of times to respawn a supervised process
during the given respawn period. The default is unlimited.
``` sh
respawn_period=seconds
```
This works in conjunction with respawn_max and respawn_delay above to
decide if a process should not be respawned for some reason.
For example, if respawn_period is 60, respawn_max is 2 and respawn_delay
is 3 and a process dies more than 4 times, the process will not be
respawned and the supervisor will terminate.