[UPDATE] It turns out you need to apply the patch below on any recent Linux distribution, not just 64 bit architectures, if that helps anyone.
More head scratching, web searching, friend asking, and huzzah, finally solved. How to actually install daemonstools on my SliceHost CentOS5 slice. The catch for me was that it wouldn’t compile because ‘it required a patch‘. Who’d of known? So here’s my notes:
$ sudo mkdir -p /package $ sudo chmod 1755 /package/ $ cd /package/ $ sudo wget http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz $ sudo tar xzf daemontools-0.76.tar.gz $ sudo wget http://www.qmail.org/moni.csi.hu/pub/glibc-2.3.1/daemontools-0.76.errno.patch $ cd admin/daemontools-0.76 $ sudo patch -p1 < ../../daemontools-0.76.errno.patch $ sudo rm ../../daemontools-0.76.errno.patch ../../daemontools-0.76.tar.gz $ sudo ./package/install ... ... Adding svscanboot to inittab... init should start svscan now.
