Hi Guys, daemontools installer doesn't now on recent ubuntus because: 1) there's no /etc/inittab 2) /etc/rc.local by default does not have +x exec right and also it ends with exit 0 so the installer will add a file after that anyway.
What we should do is use the new infrastructure (initng it's called I think) and simply create a file /etc/event.d/svscanboot with the following content: r...@dns:/etc/event.d# cat /etc/event.d/svscanboot # svscanboot - DJB's daemontools # # This service maintains svscanboot from the point the system is # started until it is shut down again. start on runlevel 1 start on runlevel 2 start on runlevel 3 start on runlevel 4 start on runlevel 5 start on runlevel 6 stop on shutdown respawn exec /command/svscanboot After that, you can just type: start svscanboot and it's there. It will start automatically now with reboots. I actually do the same with my dovecot. Best regards, Maciej Soltysiak