runit - Manage runit services.

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Controls runit services on remote hosts using the sv utility.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
enabled
 no
  • yes
  • no
Wheater the service is enabled or not, if disabled it also implies stopped.
name
 yes
Name of the service to manage.
service_dir
 no /var/service
directory runsv watches for services
service_src
 no /etc/sv
directory where services are defined, the source of symlinks to service_dir.
state
 no
  • started
  • stopped
  • restarted
  • killed
  • reloaded
  • once
started/stopped are idempotent actions that will not run commands unless necessary. restarted will always bounce the service (sv restart) and killed will always bounce the service (sv force-stop). reloaded will send a HUP (sv reload). once will run a normally downed sv once (sv once), not really an idempotent operation.

Examples

# Example action to start sv dnscache, if not running
 - runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: started

# Example action to stop sv dnscache, if running
 - runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: stopped

# Example action to kill sv dnscache, in all cases
 - runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: killed

# Example action to restart sv dnscache, in all cases
 - runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: restarted

# Example action to reload sv dnscache, in all cases
 - runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: reloaded

# Example using alt sv directory location
 - runit:
    name: dnscache
    state: reloaded
    service_dir: /run/service

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

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© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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