Daemontools
# 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, and daemontools-encore.

