I'm trying to set up runit and logging on my debian wheezy VM. So far I've managed to get gunicorn service to start by following this setup:
sudo mkdir /etc/sv/gunicorn
sudo vi /etc/sv/gunicorn/run
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/gunicorn/run /etc/service
My log run file has:
LOG_DIR=/home/$USER/logs/gunicorn/
exec svlogd -tt $LOG_DIR
When I run sudo runsvdir /etc/service/gunicorn
runsv supervise: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure
No idea what I'm doing wrong, any pointers?
In ls -la /etc/service/gunicorn/supervise i didn't see a .lock but there was a lock file. Removing that lock file caused a bit of mayhem.
Thus i got rid of the symlink; killed the pids in ps aux | grep gunicorn and re symlinked. May be the ultimate end, but does get the job done.
Are you sure that the previous process has shut down completely? You may need to find and remove a .lock or .pid file that tells the system that it is in use by another process
This can be caused by the runit daemon being stopped while it's individual services are still running.
Instead of deleting & re-creating symlinks for the runit service:
sv stop myservice
rm /etc/sv/myservice/supervise/lock
sv start myservice # or start the runit service
In your particular case your symlink was incorrect & should be:
ln -s /etc/sv/gunicorn /etc/service/gunicorn
You should be symlinking the sv directory not the run file into /etc/service/myservice
