Install Daemontools

Server Prep

• apt-get install build-essential

Obtain and install

• cd /usr/src
• wget http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
• tar zxf daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
• cd admin/daemontools-0.76/
• sed -i 's/extern int errno;/#include <errno.h>/' src/error.h
• ./package/install

Configure

• echo "alias t64='tail -f current | tai64nlocal'" >> /root/.bashrc
• echo "alias l64='cat current | tai64nlocal | less'" >> /root/.bashrc
• echo "alias t64all='tail -f /service/*/log/main/current | tai64nlocal'" >> /root/.bashrc
• echo "alias sv='svstat /service/*'" >> /root/.bashrc
• echo "PATH=/usr/local/nagios/bin:/usr/local/nagios/sbin:/usr/local/samba/bin/:/usr/local/samba/sbin/:/var/qmail/bin/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" >> /root/.bashrc
• echo "export PATH" >> /root/.bashrc
• mkdir -p -m 1755 /var/service/age.errors
• mkdir -p -m 0755 /var/service/age.errors/log
• vi /var/service/age.errors/run
• vi /var/service/multilog.run
• ln -s /var/service/multilog.run /var/service/age.errors/log/run
• chmod 0755 /var/service/age.errors/run
• chmod 0755 /var/service/age.errors/log/run
• cd /service/
• ln -s /var/service/age.errors/

Make Daemontools boot automatically with systemd

• vi /lib/systemd/system/daemontools.service
• ln -s /lib/systemd/system/daemontools.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/daemontools.service