mafintosh/dmon

Daemon control utility that aims to be cross-platform.

dmon

Daemon control utility that aims to be cross-platform. It is written in bash and build using bashkit

One-line install

 curl -fs https://raw.github.com/mafintosh/dmon/master/install | bash && . $(bashkit rc)

Usage

To create a new daemon simply run

$ dmon create my-daemon-name file.sh

All daemons are configured to be restarted when crashing and launched when the system boots. You can also create a daemon from a command using --command or -c

$ dmon create my-daemon-name --command "node server.js"

To type in the command using your default editor use --interactive or -i

$ dmon create my-daemon-name --interactive # enter the command in your editor

If you don't want the daemon to launch when the system boots use --no-boot or -n

$ dmon create my-daemon-name --no-boot --command "node server.js"

After creating a daemon you need to start it

$ dmon start my-daemon-name

You can also pass --start to dmon create to start it right away. To stop the daemon use

$ dmon stop my-daemon-name

Run dmon --help to get a list of all commands available or use autocompletion dmon <tab><tab>. dmon create --<tab><tab> will list available options to create.

OS Support

dmon has currently been tested and works on

• Ubuntu (using upstart)
• Mac OSX (using launchd)
• Debian/Raspbian (using init.d)

It should also work on other system that provides either upstart, launchd or init.d

dmon's Issues

Combine stderr and stdout into single file

It would be helpful if stderr wasn't in its own file. Mostly because you don't notice errors when you use dmon log.