How To Install multiwatch on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install multiwatch on CentOS 7. multiwatch is Forks and watches multiple instances of a program in the same

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install multiwatch on CentOS 7.

What is multiwatch

Multiwatch forks multiple instance of one application and keeps them running. It is made to be used with spawn-fcgi, so all forks share the same fastcgi socket (no web server restart needed if you increase/decrease the number of forks), and it is easier than setting up multiple daemontool supervised instances.

We can use yum or dnf to install multiwatch on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install multiwatch.

Install multiwatch on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install multiwatch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install multiwatch

Install multiwatch on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install multiwatch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install multiwatch

How To Uninstall multiwatch on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the multiwatch package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove multiwatch

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install multiwatch on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.