Daemontools

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.

daemontools

Original author(s)	Daniel J. Bernstein
Stable release	0.76 / July 12, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-07-12)[1]
Written in	C
Operating system	Linux,[2] BSD, Unix
Type	Init daemon
License	Public domain software[3]
Website	cr.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,^[4] and daemontools-encore.^[5]

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