daemontools is a collection of free tools for managing Unix services. It was written by Daniel J. Bernstein as an improvement to the inittab, ttys, init.d or rc.local alternatives by providing all of the following features.

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

daemontools is public domain software.^[1]

See the FAQ for more information on this and other related questions.

[edit] See also

Free software portal

• runit
• Process Supervision

[edit] External links

• Official daemontools website, maintained by the author
• svscan
• daemontools page at "the djb way", providing expanded information/documentation

[edit] References

1. ^ "Frequently asked questions from distributors". http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html. Retrieved 2007-12-31.