# Runit is running as a process on the host, why?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/runit-is-running-as-a-process-on-the-host-why/66205>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [Julho 14, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/runit-is-running-as-a-process-on-the-host-why/66205 "2017-07-14T14:48:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [Julho 14, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/runit-is-running-as-a-process-on-the-host-why/66205/1 "2017-07-14T14:48:33Z")

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Hello,  
I’ve just run through the set up for Discourse on a VM that runs another service (MediaWiki) via Apache (a standards thing) on CentOS (another standards thing). After the successful run I end up with Nginx installed, which I expected but I also get runit:

```
# ps -ef|grep runsv
root 22910 22859 0 14:38 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/bin/runsvdir -P /etc/service
root 22911 22910 0 14:38 ? 00:00:00 runsv cron
root 22912 22910 0 14:38 ? 00:00:00 runsv rsyslog
root 22913 22910 0 14:38 ? 00:00:00 runsv nginx
root 22914 22910 0 14:38 ? 00:00:00 runsv postgres
root 22915 22910 0 14:38 ? 00:00:00 runsv redis
root 22916 22910 0 14:38 ? 00:00:00 runsv unicorn

```

which is not installed on the host.

Is it possible to stop it? Or is it a feature of Docker?

Owen.

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