Lighttpd

= Lighty + Runit --> (almost) uninterruptible service :) =

I had some problem with lighty's stability in the past so I ended up using a simple supervisor written in shell.
I didn't need it much for a long time now, bu I thought runit would be a more elegant and robust solution than a shellscript + cron.

So here is how I got it working on Debian SID for a quick test: {{{
wajig install lighttpd
wajig install runit
}}}
This takes care of the basic config of both sw.
2. Creating the service directories and service scripts {{{

1. mkdir -p /etc/sv/lighttpd/log/
2. cat <<EOF >/etc/sv/lighttpd/run
   #!/bin/bash
   exec lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf 2>&1
   EOF #
3. cat <<EOF >/etc/sv/lighttpd/log/run
   #!/bin/bash
   exec chpst -u nobody svlogd -tt /var/log/SV/
   EOF #
4. chmod +x /etc/sv/lighttpd/run /etc/sv/lighttpd/log/run

1. Install the wanted components

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1. mkdir -p /var/log/SV
2. chown nobody /var/log/SV
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3. ln -s /etc/sv/lighttpd/ /var/service/
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4. sv status lighttpd
   run: lighttpd: (pid 4979) 19s; run: log: (pid 4606) 18s #
   }}}

5. Checking status

'''Notes''': Logging will be ok for a single service this way but may be problematic if you have several processes logging to the same directory.
I haven't tried it so I wouldn't know :)

It would have been nice to make it log the problems of lighty's startup over syslog but I couldn't get it working.
The line below should have taken care of it but it didn't work as expected for me. YMMV. {{{
echo "U127.0.0.1" > /var/log/SV/config
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