How To Install multiwatch on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install multiwatch on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install multiwatch.
Install multiwatch on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install multiwatch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install multiwatch
Install multiwatch on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install multiwatch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install multiwatch
How To Uninstall multiwatch on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the multiwatch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove multiwatch
multiwatch Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/multiwatch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/d722bdbcd703d829305f625832326c608a6e7d
/usr/share/doc/multiwatch
/usr/share/doc/multiwatch/README
/usr/share/licenses/multiwatch
/usr/share/licenses/multiwatch/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/multiwatch.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install multiwatch on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.