Alternative to Daemontools (djbtools) to supervise unix processes?
- by Stefan Lasiewski
I've used Daemontools to provide a simple and reliable way to supervise Unix services on my servers. It works well, but it requires a different way of thinking (The DJB Way) and some common complaints are:
TAI64N based timestamps
Doesn't store scripts under /etc/init.d (or (/usr/local)/etc/rc.d)
Doesn't always work with scripts like apachectl.…