daemontools svscan - list of programs in /service

svscan is a program in the daemontools package. The program starts instances of supervise and restarts them when they die. The scripts to start the applications are stored in /service.

[root@mail FAMS_MON_952]# pwd
/service/FAMS_MON_952
[root@mail FAMS_MON_952]# ls
run  supervise

[root@mail FAMS_MON_952]# cat run
#!/bin/sh
exec /var/fams_mon/fams_svr_monitor -c /var/fams_mon/fams_mon_952.conf

Instance is monitored by daemontool. The run will be called when the instance die
[root@mail FAMS_MON_952]# ps -ef | grep fams_svr_monitor
root     10189 32234  0 14:42 ?        00:00:00 /var/fams_mon/fams_svr_monitor -c /var/fams_mon/fams_mon_952.conf

[root@mail FAMS_MON_952]# kill -9 10189
The /service/FAMS_MON_952/run is called to restart the instance
[root@mail FAMS_MON_952]# ps -ef | grep fams_svr_monitor
root     12033 32234  0 14:44 ?        00:00:00 /var/fams_mon/fams_svr_monitor -c /var/fams_mon/fams_mon_952.conf

HOW TO STOP THE INSTANCE?
1> rename the /service/FAMS_MON_952/run to /service/FAMS_MON_952/run.bak
2> kill the instance

/etc/inittab

Put the line

     SV:12345:respawn:/command/svscanboot

at the end of /etc/inittab.