title: Daemontools
text: # 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.
  
  