Janine, you need to kill stuff running in /service. One failing of daemontools is shutting down stuff in order, and starting up in order. I have an init.d script for this situation:
#! /bin/sh
# chkconfig: 345 99 01
# description: svc start and kill all
# This is an example of a start/stop script for SysV-style init, such
# as is used on Linux systems. You should edit some of the variables
# and maybe the 'echo' commands.
#
# add to starup via:
# chkconfig --add svc
#
touch /tmp/running_svc
# The path that is to be used for the script
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# What to use to start up the postmaster
DAEMON="/usr/local/bin/svc"
# Only start if we can find svc.
test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
# Parse command line parameters.
case $1 in
start)
echo "Starting All SVC Daemons:"
$DAEMON -u /service/*
touch /var/lock/subsys/svc
echo "ok"
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping All SVC Daemons: "
svc -d /service/*
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/svc
echo "ok"
;;
restart)
echo -n "Restarting All SVC Daemons: "
$0 stop
$0 start
echo "ok"
;;
status)
svstat /service/*
;;
*)
# Print help
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}" 1>&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
It's heavy handed I know, you could adjust as needed, and maybe move the touched lock file to a better location.
