Daemontools
Encyclopedia
daemontools is a collection of free 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.
daemontools is public domain software
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Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
services. It was written by Daniel J. Bernstein
Daniel J. Bernstein
Daniel Julius Bernstein is a mathematician, cryptologist, programmer, and professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
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
daemontools is public domain software
Public domain software
Public domain software is software that has been placed in the public domain, in other words there is absolutely no ownership of the intellectual property that the software represents....
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External links
- Official daemontools website, maintained by the author