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I have a service that needs another service to be available before it can start. How can I tell runit about this dependency?

April 26, 2017dependency Needs runit service

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I have a service that needs another service to be available before it can start. How can I tell runit about this dependency?

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Make sure in the ./run script of the dependant service that the service it depends on is available before the service daemon starts. The sv program can be used for that. E.g.