It is sysutils/freedt in the FreeBSD ports tree, for example, and freedt-0.22p2 in the OpenBSD ports tree.Ī straight clone of the original daemontools, but with several augmentations.

You'll be surprised to find that you have this pre-packaged if you have a BSD. The control status API is not binary compatible with daemontools, as is the case for most of the others. It is also sysutils/runit in the FreeBSD ports tree and runit-1.7.2p2 in the OpenBSD ports tree.Ī GPL-licensed clone of the original daemontools, that was begun in 2003. This was packaged for Debian Linux by Gerrit Pape as runit and (initially) runit-run. It went down the same path as daemontools-encore, in more tightly integrating 'log' and 'main' services than the original daemontools did.Īll of the command names are quite different.

Runit has the famous 'just run four shell scripts' approach to system management. It was extended to provide rudimentary system management as well, and remains (as of 2015) one of only two members of the daemontools family to provide a system manager program that can be run as process #1 of a Linux system. Bernstein's tools all in one.Ī reimplementation of the same design and mechanisms, begun with version 0.1.1 on. Gerrit Pape's manual pages and a couple of extra things have been collected into djbwares, a collection of several of Daniel J. It is also sysutils/daemontools in the FreeBSD ports tree and sysutils/daemontools in the NetBSD packages tree. This was packaged for Debian Linux by Gerrit Pape as daemontools, adding his own daemontools-doc with manual pages derived from Bernstein's WWW site and daemontools-run that runs daemontools under System 5 rc. This soon developed into a proper dæmon supervision suite, with a service manager, especially as the imposibility of securely 'dæmonizing' a child process running in a terminal session became apparent. It began, with version 0.51 on, as a way to 'dæmonize' programs from the command line. Tools that all share similar design principles, and many implementation The daemontools family is a family of dæmon supervision and management

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