How To Install "runit" Package on Ubuntu

Quick Install Instructions of runit on Ubuntu Server. It’s Super Easy! simply click on Copy button to copy the command and paste into your command line terminal using built-in APT package manager.

See below for quick step by step instructions of SSH commands, Copy/Paste to avoid miss-spelling or accidently installing a different package.


Quick Install Steps:
Step 1
sudo apt-get update -y
Step 2
sudo apt-get install -y runit
Step 3
Check the system logs to confirm that there are no related errors. You can use ZoomAdmin to check the logs, manager servers, host multiple websites and apps on your servers and more. The apps run in docker containers, to learn more
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Execute the commands above step by step. You can simply hit the copy button to copy the command and paste into the command line interface.
Note: -y flag means to assume yes and silently install, without asking you questions in most cases.

system-wide service supervision
runit is a collection of tools to provide system-wide service supervision and to manage services. Contrary to sysv init, it not only cares about starting and stopping services, but also supervises the service daemons while they are running. Amongst other things, it provides a reliable interface to send signals to service daemons without the need for pid-files, and a log facility with automatic log file rotation and disk space limits. system-wide service supervision
runit is a collection of tools to provide system-wide service supervision and to manage services. Contrary to sysv init, it not only cares about starting and stopping services, but also supervises the service daemons while they are running. Amongst other things, it provides a reliable interface to send signals to service daemons without the need for pid-files, and a log facility with automatic log file rotation and disk space limits.

Detailed Instructions:
Step 1
Run update command to update package repositories and get latest package information.
sudo apt-get update -y
Step 2
Run the install command with -y flag to quickly install the packages and dependencies.
sudo apt-get install -y runit
Step 3
Check the system logs to confirm that there are no related errors. You can use ZoomAdmin to check the logs, manager servers, host multiple websites and apps on your servers and more. The apps run in docker containers, to learn more
see ZoomAdmin Features for list of features and demo videos. And you can start with the Free Plan.