On 5/26/05, Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.org> wrote:
> On May 25, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote:
> > I'd like to see how you're doing that. Does it require root to do? I
> > seem to remember something deamontools related that required root.
> Yeah, the service monitor runs as root.

BTW, you con't have to run svscan as root, but when you install
daemontools it sets itself up that way by default (installs itself
into /etc/inittab).  You can easily write a script to start up svscan
to run as any user and monitor any directory you wish.

-Dave