Running Diaspora, without ./script/server on Ubuntu

I wanted to free my terminal from the plethora of Diaspora* foreground daemons... I also wanted to make sure that these alpha daemons could be restarted, once they inevitably crashed. I tried using an older version of an Ubuntu init script.

The original version followed older init practices, and avoided upstart altogether. This allowed me to skip script/server, but didn't restart services. As such, I decided to yank the core team's daemontools implementation. Core functionality was there, using this approach, but websocket didn't quite work (no pushes to clients) and I noticed numerous complaints, running ps axuw|grep readproc. No amount of fiddling yielded usable/stable results...

Finally, I decided to change my service names, prefixing each name with a number, similar to init and then instituting requirements. It is redundant, but the numbering was a convenient mnemonic ... The order of execution mimics the order script/server.

Install instructions, a version of my work, and a handy script for controlling daemontools services can be found at github.

I completed work on this and two days later (one day later?) leamas completed a wholesale rewrite of the Ubuntu package installer. It seems to have tighter integration with Ubuntu's edicts and expectations...