Daemontools

{{Short description|Software}}

{{For|the Windows disk image emulator software|Daemon Tools}}

{{Infobox software

| name = daemontools

| author = Daniel J. Bernstein

| latest release version = 0.76

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2001|07|12}}{{cite web |url=http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/install.html |title=How to install daemontools |last1=Bernstein |first1=Daniel |date=2001-07-12 |website=cr.yp.to |access-date=2013-12-12}}

| programming language = C

| operating system = Linux,{{cite web |url=http://www.techrepublic.com/article/tech-tip-run-services-in-linux-using-daemontools/ |title=Tech Tip: Run services in Linux using daemontools |author= |date=2004-08-12 |website=techrepublic.com |publisher=TechRepublic |access-date=12 December 2013}} BSD, Unix

| genre = Init daemon

| license = Public domain software{{cite web |url=http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html |title=Frequently asked questions from distributors |last1=Bernstein |first1=Daniel |website=cr.yp.to |access-date=12 December 2013}}

}}

{{lowercase|title=daemontools}}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,[https://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/overview.html An overview of s6] and daemontools-encore.[https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Daemontools-encore daemontools-encore]

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