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,An overview of s6 and daemontools-encore.daemontools-encore
References
External links Official daemontools website, maintained by the author