daemontools

Custom resources for installing daemontools, managing svscan, and defining supervised services.

This cookbook no longer exposes recipes or node attributes as its public API. Use the resources directly.

Supported Platforms

• Amazon Linux 2023
• Debian 12+
• Ubuntu 24.04+
• Arch Linux via AUR
• Gentoo via sys-process/daemontools

Current distro and packaging constraints are documented in LIMITATIONS.md.

Resources

• daemontools_install_source
• daemontools_install_package
• daemontools_install_aur
• daemontools_svscan
• daemontools_service

Resource-specific documentation lives under documentation/.

Usage

Source install with managed svscan

daemontools_install_source 'default' do
  bin_dir '/usr/local/bin'
  service_dir '/etc/service'
end

daemontools_svscan 'default' do
  install_style :source
  bin_dir '/usr/local/bin'
  service_dir '/etc/service'
end

Debian or Ubuntu package install

daemontools_install_package 'default' do
  package_name 'daemontools-run'
  service_dir '/etc/service'
end

daemontools_svscan 'default' do
  install_style :package
  service_name 'daemontools'
  service_dir '/etc/service'
end

Arch Linux AUR install

daemontools_install_aur 'default' do
  package_name 'daemontools'
  service_dir '/etc/service'
end

daemontools_svscan 'default' do
  install_style :aur
  service_name 'svscan'
  service_dir '/etc/service'
end

Define a supervised service

daemontools_service 'flowers' do
  directory '/etc/sv/flowers'
  template 'flowers'
  bin_dir '/usr/local/bin'
  service_dir '/etc/service'
  log true
  action %i(enable start)
end

Templates are still expected in the consuming cookbook:

• templates/default/sv-flowers-run.erb
• templates/default/sv-flowers-log-run.erb

If the service uses a finish script, set finish true and provide sv-flowers-finish.erb.

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