daemontools
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For the Windows disk image emulator software, see Daemon Tools.
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.
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Original author(s) | Daniel J. Bernstein |
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Stable release | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Linux,[2] BSD, Unix |
Type | Init daemon |
License | Public domain software[3] |
Website | cr |
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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,[4] and daemontools-encore.[5]