Ah, so it was a permissions issue.
As to the 'recommended practice' of using daemontools, I for one am not thrilled with the idea of relying on Yet Another Piece of 3rd Party Software. We have enough dependencies now on 3rd party stuff; while daemontools is quite powerful not everyone is going to want (or need) it. Or even be able to use it, depending upon the target of the OpenACS installation.
I use inittab -- it's there, it's guaranteed to be there, and it works with less hassle. IMHO. A paragraph about 'alternatives to using inittab are available. One such alternative is daemontools. Further documentation on using daemontools may be found here' would be more appropriate. In my mind the administrivia about daemontools clutters the documentation.
I just don't think the docs should favor a 'recommended' sysadmin style. YMMV, IMHO, etc.
