carl-vbn/pitchfork

POSIX utility to manage background tasks

pitchfork

POSIX utility to manage background tasks

Goal

This project was started out of frustration with the limitations of the screen utility. Although very useful, screen is not very configurable and is hard to automate.

pitchfork is designed to manage long-running tasks such as webservers and various microservices running on the same machine. It takes in a configuration file that dictates how each task should be run and will then make sure they keep running while allowing both humans and programs to interface with the running setup.

Planned features

• Run multiple child processes asynchronously
• Capture standard I/O
• Parse YAML
• Configurable command and arguments
• Configurable environment variables
• Configurable working directory
• Configurable permissions
• Configurable logging
• Sockets to connect to a running pitchfork process
• Automatic restarts
• Pre and post commands