Qmail on Fedora 9.
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SV:123456:respawn:/command/svscanboot
The trouble is in Fedora 9, this line will just be ignored by init. You have to use 'upstart' instead. This is what the fedora release notes say:
That's about as much documentation as available. If you go onto read the upstart getting started guide, you will only end up being confused. For starters the /etc/init.d/jobs/ folder does not exits on fedora. Here is't /etc/event.d
I found a post which explains how to start daemontools with fedora. You create a file named svscanboot in /etc/event.d/ and then use initctl start svscanboot . Trouble is initctl barfs with:
Apparently you need to reboot for upstart to read the contents of /etc/event.d/ to be reread. Apparently the idiots who decided to include upstart with fedora forgot that this is a linux distro not a vista flavour.