Which supervisor is recommended?

[Jimmy-Z]

I've tried to use s6 but failed, I'll open another issue for this.

supervise-daemon works for me, but I wonder what's the current status? I see no mentioning of "experimental" in supervise-daemon-guide.md but openrc-run man page still says so.

runit is not even mentioned in openrc-run man page.

[boardwalk]

I had the same question. So far I've found that:

• start-stop-daemon supports output_logger and error_logger so you can easily gets things into syslog
• supervise-daemon doesn't support that, but does obviously supervise your daemons and give nicer status via rc-status
• s6 (which I have not tried yet) seems to require a different directory/setup (whereas with the two above you can just drop a single script into /etc/init.d), but would support logger processes like start-stop-daemon

There is most likely much more to this. I think ideally, for me, supervise-daemon would gain output_logger and error_logger support.

[agelwarg]

@boardwalk I'm running into the same issue -- wishing supervise-daemon supported output_logger / error_logger. Have you found out anything further?

[boardwalk]

@agelwarg I landed on using supervise-daemon with output_log / error_log (e.g. plain log files) and setting up logrotate. I didn't really need things to go to syslog in the end (I don't need to do off-box log aggregation or anything -- even if I did there are agents that can watch files).

[agelwarg]

@boardwalk Makes sense and I’m sorta arriving at the same solution. Thanks.