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<a href="http://innominate.org/~pape/">G. Pape</a><br>
<a href="index.html">runit</a><br>
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<h1>runit - installation</h1>
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Check that you have the recent version of
<a href="http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html">daemontools</a> installed.
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Download
<a href="ftp://ftp.innominate.org/pub/pape/runit/runit-0.1.0.tar.gz">
runit-0.1.0.tar.gz</a> into <tt>/package</tt> and unpack the archive
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  # cd /package
  # gunzip runit-0.1.0.tar
  # tar -xpf runit-0.1.0.tar
  # rm runit-0.1.0.tar
  # cd admin/runit-0.1.0
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Compile and install the <i>runit</i> programs
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  # package/install
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gzip the man pages and copy them into a reasonable directory in your
<tt>$MANPATH</tt>, e.g.
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  # mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man8/
  # gzip man/runit.8 && cp -f man/runit.8.gz /usr/local/man/man8/
  # gzip man/runit-init.8 && cp -f man/runit-init.8.gz /usr/local/man/man8/
  # gzip man/runit-halt.8 && cp -f man/runit-halt.8.gz /usr/local/man/man8/
  # gzip man/runit-reboot.8 && cp -f man/runit-reboot.8.gz /usr/local/man/man8/
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Refer to <a href="replaceinit.html">replacing init</a> for
replacing <i>sysvinit</i> with <i>runit</i>.
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<address><a href="mailto:pape@smarden.org">
Gerrit Pape &lt;pape@smarden.org&gt;
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<small>$Id$</small>
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