Using runit and monit to run / monitor services

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Published on 2012-10-01T07:57:58Z Indexed on 2012/10/01 9:39 UTC
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I am configuring some services to run on Ubuntu server.

I was going through the link below where they use runit to run the services and monit to monitor the services -

http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/manual/monit.html http://rubyworks.rubyforge.org/manual/runit.html

1) The services are all started through monit. 2) Monit inturn starts them using runit.

What is the advantage of using the above setup, where the services are run using runit via Monit. Why use runit in the middle, instead of directly starting them with monit?

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