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Ubuntu Edgy includes upstart, a replacement for the regular SysV init. This also obsoletes /etc/inittab, which is replaced by the new /etc/event.d directory. Unfortunately the daemontools-installer package in universe doesn’t quite understand upstart just yet. Starting daemontools via upstart is quite easy. Just add the following to /etc/event.d/svscan:

# svscan - daemontools
#
# This service starts daemontools from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

start on runlevel-2
start on runlevel-3
start on runlevel-4
start on runlevel-5

stop on shutdown

respawn /usr/bin/svscanboot

Then start daemontools with ’start svscan’

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