Forum OpenACS Q&A: Daemontools + Keep Aolserver Alive problem

You have a problem with svcscan. Do a ps eax |grep supervise and see what you have.

Also, why are you using /web/birdnotes? That was an example name. --- NOTE to Vinod, you should change the references to mywebsite or something.

I actually used /web/birdnotes just in the post, willing to be consistent with the online documentation: being a beginner I am used to a step-by-step, word-by-word, quiet method, without much phantasy and supported by no knowldge at all. Mastering the whole thing in english is already a tough task to me; add your computer jargon, plus all those technical things... Every time I switch my computer on, I sweat cold.
The real directory in my system is /web/kirpi.
Ten minutes ago I came home; I just switched my PC on, opened a console as root and here is the result: something I cannot understand at all. I hope you can.

linux:~ # ps eax | grep supervise
1011 ? S 0:00 supervise kirpi PATH=/command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/loc al/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin 5595 pts/27 S 0:00 grep supervise PWD=/root LD_HWCAP_MASK=0x20000000 KDE _MALLOC=1 KONSOLE_DCOP=DCOPRef(konsole-5556,konsole) PAGER=less SHLIB_PATH=/opt/ mozilla/ GS_LIB=/root/.kde/share/fonts HOSTNAME=linux MOZILLA_DIR=/opt/mozilla/ LESSCLOSE=lessclose.sh %s %s RC_LANG=en_US LS_OPTIONS=-a -N --color=tty -T 0 KDE HOME=/root/.kde QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 _SUSECONFIG_PROFILE=true OPENWINHOME=/usr/ope nwin KDEROOTHOME=/root/.kde D=32 LESSKEY=/etc/lesskey.bin KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION=D COPRef(konsole-5556,session-1) LESSOPEN=lessopen.sh %s MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/u sr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/gnome/man JAVA_BINDIR=/usr/lib/java/bin GNOME_P ATH=:/opt/gnome:/usr NNTPSERVER=news LESS=-M -I ADDON_PATH=/opt/mozilla/ USER=ro ot LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;0 1:or=40;31;01:ex=01;31:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.btm=01; 32:*.dll=01;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tbz=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz =00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.tbz2 =00;31:*.png=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.pcx=01;35: *.ppm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.wav=00;32:*.mp3=00;32:*.au=00; 32:*.aiff=00;32:*.mid=00;32:*.voc=00;32: XSESSION_IS_UP=yes MACHTYPE=i686-suse-l inux XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB RC_LC_COLLATE=POSIX KDE_MULTIHEAD=fa lse INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/root/.gtkrc:/root/.gtkrc-k de XDM_MANAGED=/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched moz_debug=0 LESS_ADVA NCED_PREPROCESSOR=no GNOMEDIR=/opt/gnome HOST=linux JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java LIBP ATH=/opt/mozilla/ COLORTERM= X=1024 INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/us r/info Y=768 DISPLAY=:0.0 LOGNAME=root SHLVL=2 TEXINPUTS=:/root/.TeX:/usr/share/ doc/.TeX:/usr/doc/.TeX LC_CTYPE=en_US MINICOM=-c on INFODIR=/usr/local/info:/usr /share/info:/usr/info SESSION_MANAGER=local/linux:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3332 KONQ_DIR=/ root/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/dirtree/ SHELL=/bin/bash PRINTER=lp JDK_HOME=/usr /lib/java HOSTTYPE=i386 CPU=i686 OSTYPE=linux WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde J RE_HOME=/usr/lib/java HOME=/root TERM=xterm XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls no_p roxy=localhost PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/us r/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/opt/kde2/bin: /usr/lib/java/bin:/opt/gnome/bin mc=() { mkdir -p $HOME/.mc/tmp 2>/dev/null;? c hmod 700 $HOME/.mc/tmp;? MC=$HOME/.mc/tmp/mc-$$;? /usr/bin/mc -P "$@" >"$MC";? c d "`cat $MC`";? rm -f "$MC";? unset MC?} _=/usr/bin/grep
linux:~ #

I tried and learn how to use the pre /pre tags to help you better read the console output: no way for me to really understand it.
As I write

ps eax | grep supervise

an unformatted block of unreadable text fills the console window. I now try again and provide you with the last output. I put pre /pre tags just before and after the following block, and it becomes a long line...

linux:~ # ps eax | grep supervise
 1011 ?        S      0:00 supervise kirpi PATH=/command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 5165 pts/1    R      0:00 grep supervise PWD=/root LD_HWCAP_MASK=0x20000000 KDE_MALLOC=1 KONSOLE_DCOP=DCOPRef(konsole-5098,konsole) PAGER=less GS_LIB=/share/fonts HOSTNAME=linux LESSCLOSE=lessclose.sh %s %s LS_OPTIONS=-a -N --color=tty -T 0 KDEHOME=/home/luigi/.kde QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 _SUSECONFIG_PROFILE=true OPENWINHOME=/usr/openwin LESSKEY=/etc/lesskey.bin KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION=DCOPRef(konsole-5098,session-1) LESSOPEN=lessopen.sh %s JAVA_BINDIR=/usr/lib/java/bin MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/gnome/man GNOME_PATH=:/opt/gnome:/usr:/opt/gnome:/usr NNTPSERVER=news LESS=-M -I USER=luigi LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;31:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.dll=01;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tbz=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.tbz2=00;31:*.png=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.wav=00;32:*.mp3=00;32:*.au=00;32:*.aiff=00;32:*.mid=00;32:*.voc=00;32: XSESSION_IS_UP=yes MACHTYPE=i686-suse-linux XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB KDE_MULTIHEAD=false INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc OLDPWD=/home/luigi GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/luigi/.gtkrc XDM_MANAGED=/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched LESS_ADVANCED_PREPROCESSOR=no LANG=en_US GNOMEDIR=/opt/gnome HOST=linux JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java COLORTERM= INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info DISPLAY=:0.0 LOGNAME=luigi SHLVL=3 TEXINPUTS=::/home/luigi/.TeX:/usr/share/doc/.TeX:/usr/doc/.TeX:/home/luigi/.TeX:/usr/share/doc/.TeX:/usr/doc/.TeX MINICOM=-c on INFODIR=/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info SESSION_MANAGER=local/linux:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1313 SHELL=/bin/bash PRINTER=lp JDK_HOME=/usr/lib/java HOSTTYPE=i386 CPU=i686 OSTYPE=linux WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/java HOME=/root TERM=xterm XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls no_proxy=localhost PATH=/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin LC_COLLATE=POSIX mc=() {  mkdir -p $HOME/.mc/tmp 2>/dev/null;? chmod 700 $HOME/.mc/tmp;? MC=$HOME/.mc/tmp/mc-$$;? /usr/bin/mc -P "$@" >"$MC";? cd "`cat $MC`";? rm -f "$MC";? unset MC?} _=/bin/grep
linux:~ #
linux:~ #

As for inittab, I cannot even figure out what you mean.
Sorry for being a beginner.