<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Install Daemontools (OPTIONAL)</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="OpenACS Core Documentation"><link rel="up" href="install-more-software.html" title="Appendix�B.�Install additional supporting software"><link rel="previous" href="psgml-for-emacs.html" title="Add PSGML commands to emacs init file (OPTIONAL)"><link rel="next" href="install-qmail.html" title="Install qmail (OPTIONAL)"><link rel="stylesheet" href="openacs.css" type="text/css"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><a href="http://openacs.org"><img src="/doc/images/alex.jpg" border="0"></a><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header" border="0"><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="psgml-for-emacs.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix�B.�Install additional supporting software</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="install-qmail.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="install-daemontools"></a>Install Daemontools (OPTIONAL)</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>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.</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p>Install Daemontools</p><a class="indexterm" name="id2835488"></a><p><a href="individual-programs.html#daemontools-download">download daemontools</a> and install it.</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>Red Hat 8</p><pre class="screen">[root@yourserver root]# <b class="userinput"><tt>mkdir -p /package</tt></b>
[root@yourserver root]# <b class="userinput"><tt>chmod 1755 /package/</tt></b>
[root@yourserver root]# <b class="userinput"><tt>cd /package/</tt></b>
[root@yourserver package]# <b class="userinput"><tt>tar xzf /tmp/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz</tt></b>
[root@yourserver package]# <b class="userinput"><tt>cd admin/daemontools-0.76/</tt></b>
[root@yourserver daemontools-0.76]# <b class="userinput"><tt>package/install</tt></b>
Linking ./src/* into ./compile...
(many lines omitted)
Creating /service...
Adding svscanboot to inittab...
init should start svscan now.
[root@yourserver root]#
<pre class="action"><span class="action">mkdir -p /package
chmod 1755 /package
cd /package
tar xzf /tmp/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
cd admin/daemontools-0.76
package/install</span></pre></pre></li><li><p>Red Hat 9</p><p>Make sure you have the source tarball in
<tt class="computeroutput">/tmp</tt>, or <a href="individual-programs.html#daemontools-download">download it</a>.
</p><pre class="screen">[root@yourserver root]# <b class="userinput"><tt>mkdir -p /package</tt></b>
[root@yourserver root]# <b class="userinput"><tt>chmod 1755 /package/</tt></b>
[root@yourserver root]# <b class="userinput"><tt>cd /package/</tt></b>
[root@yourserver package]# <b class="userinput"><tt>tar xzf /tmp/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz</tt></b>
[root@yourserver package]# <b class="userinput"><tt>cd admin</tt></b>
[root@yourserver admin]# <b class="userinput"><tt>wget http://moni.csi.hu/pub/glibc-2.3.1/daemontools-0.76.errno.patch</tt></b>
--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 moni.csi.hu[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@yourserver admin]# <b class="userinput"><tt>cd daemontools-0.76</tt></b>
[root@yourserver daemontools-0.76]# <b class="userinput"><tt>patch -p1 < ../daemontools-0.76.errno.patch</tt></b>
[root@yourserver daemontools-0.76]# <b class="userinput"><tt>package/install</tt></b>
Linking ./src/* into ./compile...
(many lines omitted)
Creating /service...
Adding svscanboot to inittab...
init should start svscan now.
[root@yourserver root]#
<pre class="action"><span class="action">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</span></pre></pre></li><li><p>Debian</p><pre class="screen">root:~# <b class="userinput"><tt>apt-get install daemontools-installer</tt></b>
root:~# <b class="userinput"><tt>build-daemontools</tt></b></pre></li></ul></div></li><li><p>Verify that svscan is running. If it is, you should see
these two processes running:</p><pre class="screen">[root@yourserver root]# <b class="userinput"><tt>ps -auxw | grep service</tt></b>
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]#</pre></li><li><p>Install a script to grant non-root users permission to
control daemontools services.</p><pre class="screen">[root@yourserver root]# <b class="userinput"><tt>cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0a4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/svgroup.txt /usr/local/bin/svgroup</tt></b>
[root@yourserver root]# <b class="userinput"><tt>chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/svgroup</tt></b>
<pre class="action"><span class="action">cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0a4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/svgroup.txt /usr/local/bin/svgroup
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/svgroup</span></pre></pre></li></ol></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="psgml-for-emacs.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="install-qmail.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left">Add PSGML commands to emacs init file (OPTIONAL) </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="install-more-software.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> Install qmail (OPTIONAL)</td></tr></table><hr><address><a href="mailto:docs@openacs.org">docs@openacs.org</a></address></div><a name="comments"></a><center><a href="http://openacs.org/doc/install-daemontools.html#comments">View comments on this page at openacs.org</a></center></body></html>