{/doc/acs-core-docs {Documentation}} {Install Daemontools (OPTIONAL)} Install Daemontools (OPTIONAL) <master>

## 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-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/svgroup.txt /usr/local/bin/svgroup
       [root root]# chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/svgroupcp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/svgroup.txt /usr/local/bin/svgroup
       chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/svgroup