IMPORTANT: In order to enable sysmgr you need to uncomment the line on '/etc/init/sysmgr.boot' and '/etc/init/sysmgr.pre.shutdown' You can do this as root by doing, sed -i 's/# //' /etc/init/sysmgr.boot /etc/init/sysmgr.pre.shutdown Carbs packages now come with sysmgr services by default, but didn't have a release bump to avoid a rebuild just to get sysmgr services. You can manually copy all your sysmgr services with the following command. mkdir -p /etc/sysmgr for service in /etc/sv/* ; do cp \$service/run /etc/sysmgr/\${service##*/} done You can then copy all the services you run in /var/service to /var/sysmgr by doing, for service in /var/service/* ; do ln -sv /etc/sysmgr/\${service##*/} /var/sysmgr done