Install Daemontools (OPTIONAL)

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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.

Install Daemontools

Red Hat

Make sure you have the source tarball in /tmp, or download it. (The -p flag in mkdir causes all implied directories in the path to be made as well.)

(If you are using Red Hat 9.0, you need to put #include <errno.h> as the first line of /package/admin/daemontools-0.76/src/error.h. More information)

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

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

[root@yourserver 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@yourserver root]#

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

[root@yourserver root]# cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/svgroup.txt /usr/local/bin/svgroup
[root@yourserver root]# chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/svgroup
cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/svgroup.txt /usr/local/bin/svgroup 
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/svgroup

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