Daemontools

Daniel J. Bernstein's daemontools package, described by him as "a collection of tools for managing UNIX services", is the pioneer of what some people call today process supervision suites, i.e. packages that provide tools for performing process supervision. There are no further releases of daemontools after 0.76, but other software packages have been inspired by its design principles, notably runit, s6, perp, nosh, and an enhanced succesor, daemontools-encore.

Files

 * - Location of the scan directory when using OpenRC or.

OpenRC
See here for details.

Usage
See daemontools-encore.

Unmerge
The same extra steps after removing daemontools-encore apply here.

External resources

 * http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/install.html - A very short guide on how to install daemontools.