Questions tagged [daemontools]

daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services written by D. J. Bernstein.

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Alternative to Daemontools (djbtools) to supervise unix processes?

I've used Daemontools to provide a simple and reliable way to supervise Unix services on my servers. It works well, but it requires a different way of thinking (The DJB Way) and some common complaints ...
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runit - unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

I'm trying to figure out why runit will not boot or give me the status for the managed applications. Running on Ubuntu 12.04. I created /service, /etc/sv/myapp (with a run script, a config file, a ...
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Autostart/restart program simply with daemontools in debian 9 [closed]

For example make vlc start and play a video full screen on boot. After working this out here it is:
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