running fossil as a daemon process

This is just a note to myself in case I need it 🙂

To run fossil as a daemon process on Ubuntu. I did the following:

  1. Created a fossil user and home directory and gave it a copy of the fossil executable and the website fossil file
  2. Created a fossil/etc/init.d/fossil file
  3. Issued
    sudo /etc/init.d/fossil start
  4. Run sudo update-rc.d fossil defaults to get the init.d script run at system start.

This /etc/init.d/fossil runs multiple fossils.

Comments: 2

  1. David says:

    I'll probably convert this to use the standard 'skeleton' in the /etx/init.d directory of ubuntu at some point.

    • David says:

      I've updated the fossil in this post to fix some minor problems. Those fixes mean that I'm unlikely to do the suggested conversion.