God ignores the TERM signal. Maybe this is a ruby thing? I’m not really going to bother looking. But when trying to run God inside runit, which normally sends a TERM when you tell it to stop a process; this is no good. It looks like God ignores HUP if run as a daemon:

      def run_daemonized
        # trap and ignore SIGHUP
        Signal.trap('HUP') {}

In which case the only way I could find to stop it is with an INT signal. But HUP will kill it when run non-daemonized with the “-D” option. I guess mysql and other daemons do this sorta thing too and I got the idea from this thread. For other processes see this archive of runit scripts for something that works or examples. Anyways, my runit run script for god:

#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1

trap 'kill -HUP %1' 1 2 13 15

/usr/bin/god -D -c /etc/god/master.god --log-level debug --no-syslog & wait