Freedt

Experimental reimplementation of Dan Bernstein’s daemontools

A reimplementation of Dan Bernstein’s daemontools under the GNU GPL, sharing no code with the original implementation.

It currently includes feature-equivalent replacements for argv0, envdir, envuidgid, setlock, setuidgid, softlimit, supervise, svc, svok, svscan, svstat and recordio. It also includes dumblog a simple multilog replacement, mkservice a script for automatically creating service directories, anonidentd an anonimising identd implementation and ratelimit a bandwidth-limiting filter along the lines of recordio. All the tools include usage messages; for instance, do “ratelimit -h” for a brief rundown of the options.

Please note that this package is not a drop-in replacement for daemontools; the internal state files in service directories are different, and the error messages and a few of the options aren’t quite the same. It’s also still somewhat experimental, so I’d recommend sticking with daemontools on production systems until there’s a stable release of freedt.