Daemontools
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- The correct title of this article is daemontools. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
For disk image emulator, see DAEMON Tools.
daemontools is a collection of 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
See the FAQ for more information on this and other related questions.
[edit] External links
- Official daemontools website, maintained by the author
- svscan
- daemontools page at "the djb way", providing expanded information/documentation
