daemontools

daemontools is a process supervision toolkit written by Daniel J. Bernstein as an alternative to other system initialization and process supervision tools, such as Init.

daemontools
Original author(s)Daniel J. Bernstein
Stable release
0.76 / July 12, 2001 (2001-07-12)
Written inC
Operating systemLinux, BSD, Unix
TypeInit daemon
LicensePublic domain software
Websitecr.yp.to/daemontools.html 

Some of the features of daemontools are:

  • Easy service installation and removal
  • Easy first-time service startup
  • Reliable restarts
  • Easy, reliable signalling
  • Clean process state
  • Portability

Similar applications are runit, s6, and daemontools-encore.

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