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Install Daemontools (OPTIONAL)

Daemontools is a collection of programs for controlling other processes. We use daemontools to run and monitor AOLserver. It is installed in /package. These commands install daemontools and svgroup. svgroup is a script for granting permissions, to allow users other than root to use daemontools for specific services.

  1. Install Daemontools

    download daemontools and install it.

    • Red Hat 8

      [root root]# mkdir -p /package
[root root]# chmod 1755 /package/
[root root]# cd /package/
[root package]# tar xzf /tmp/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
[root package]# cd admin/daemontools-0.76/
[root daemontools-0.76]# package/install
Linking ./src/* into ./compile...

Creating /service...
Adding svscanboot to inittab...
init should start svscan now.
[root root]#
mkdir -p /package 
chmod 1755 /package 
cd /package 
tar xzf /tmp/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz 
cd admin/daemontools-0.76 
package/install

    • Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1-4

      Make sure you have the source tarball in /tmp, or download it. 

      [root root]# mkdir -p /package
[root root]# chmod 1755 /package/
[root root]# cd /package/
[root package]# tar xzf /tmp/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
[root package]# cd admin
[root admin]# wget http://www.qmail.org/moni.csi.hu/pub/glibc-2.3.1/daemontools-0.76.errno.patch
--14:19:24--  http://moni.csi.hu/pub/glibc-2.3.1/daemontools-0.76.errno.patch
           => `daemontools-0.76.errno.patch'
Resolving moni.csi.hu... done.
Connecting to www.qmail.org[141.225.11.87]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 355 [text/plain]

100%[====================================>] 355          346.68K/s    ETA 00:00

14:19:24 (346.68 KB/s) - `daemontools-0.76.errno.patch' saved [355/355]

[root admin]# cd daemontools-0.76
[root daemontools-0.76]# patch -p1 < ../daemontools-0.76.errno.patch
[root daemontools-0.76]# package/install
Linking ./src/* into ./compile...(many lines omitted)
Creating /service...
Adding svscanboot to inittab...
init should start svscan now.
[root root]#
mkdir -p /package 
chmod 1755 /package 
cd /package 
tar xzf /tmp/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz 
cd admin
wget http://moni.csi.hu/pub/glibc-2.3.1/daemontools-0.76.errno.patch
cd daemontools-0.76
patch -p1 < ../daemontools-0.76.errno.patch
package/install

    • FreeBSD (follow standard install)

      Make sure you have the source tarball in /tmp, or download it. 

      [root root]# mkdir -p /package
[root root]# chmod 1755 /package/
[root root]# cd /package/
[root package]# tar xzf /tmp/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
[root package]# cd admin/daemontools-0.76
[root daemontools-0.76]# package/install
Linking ./src/* into ./compile...(many lines omitted)
Creating /service...
Adding svscanboot to inittab...
init should start svscan now.
[root root]#
mkdir -p /package 
chmod 1755 /package 
cd /package 
tar xzf /tmp/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz 
cd admin/daemontools-0.76
package/install

    • Debian

      [root ~]# apt-get install daemontools-installer
[root ~]# build-daemontools

  2. Verify that svscan is running. If it is, you should see these two processes running:

    [root root]# ps -auxw | grep service
root     13294  0.0  0.1  1352  272 ?        S    09:51   0:00 svscan /service
root     13295  0.0  0.0  1304  208 ?        S    09:51   0:00 readproctitle service errors: .......................................
[root root]#

  3. Install a script to grant non-root users permission to control daemontools services.

    [root root]# cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/svgroup.txt /usr/local/bin/svgroup
[root root]# chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/svgroup
cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/svgroup.txt /usr/local/bin/svgroup 
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/svgroup
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