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.

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.

References

External links

• Official daemontools website, maintained by the author