Here's the bare minimum to get daemontools running under systemd
cat <<CNF > /usr/lib/systemd/system/daemontools.service [Unit] Description=DJB daemontools After=network.target [Service] ExecStart=/var/daemontools/command/svscanboot Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target CNF systemctl enable daemontools systemctl start daemontools
Note that the default daemontools install would put the executable in /command/svscanboot.
So I need to move my big application from CentOS 6 to CentOS 8. First problem - systemd. Unfortunately there's no way to remove systemd, and I'm not sure I want to move to Slackware. Second problem - mysql 5.6 won't compile with a recent GNU C++ compiler ! OK, I'll move to 5.7. Wait, SphinxSE won't compile with 5.7. It looks like Sphinx has been abandoned, but it's successor Manticore hasn't moved SphinxSE to 5.7 either. It turns out that 5.7 should have been called 6.0. Maybe this is why the next version is called 8.0?
Fortunately some Googling allowed me to find someone who did the hard work. I cleaned up compiler warnings and updated INSTALL. Source is here.
