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Lets install daemontools
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/daemontools
# make install clean
If you get a pop-up window when you do this, Just hit TAB and then click OK.
We now need to create the /service directory to get svscan running. We do that by:
# mkdir /service
You will now want to start the svscan server by running:
# csh -cf '/usr/local/bin/svscanboot &'
Run the following command to check and see if svscan is running
# ps -auxw | grep svscan
root 384 0.0 0.0 1652 8 con- I 16Jul05 0:00.01 /bin/sh /command/svscanboot
root 404 0.0 0.0 1244 140 con- S 16Jul05 9:04.68 svscan /service
We now need to tell FreeBSD to start daemontools on startup. Here is the command that tells freebsd to do that:
# echo "csh -cf '/usr/local/bin/svscanboot &'" >> /etc/rc.local
Before we continue on, we want to delete the startup script thats created when we installed daemontools:
# rm /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan