launchtool release page

launchtool is a tool that runs a user-supplied command and can supervise its execution in many ways, such as controlling its environment, blocking signals, logging its output, changing user and group permissions, limiting resource usage, restarting it if it fails, running it continuously and turn it into a daemon.

launchtool is fully configurable, both through the commandline and using configuration files. Configuration files can be made executable and start with "#!/usr/bin/launchtool -C", to create daemons using simpler commands.

You can have a read at launchtool's manpage if you want to read some documentation before downloading.

New in version 0.7

• Compiles with gcc 3.2 (thanks to Tsuyoshi GEMMA and Andres Salomon)
• Can compile without execinfo.h, to allow to be built with uClibc (thanks to Tsuyoshi GEMMA)

New in version 0.6

• Corrected the parser for syslog logging parameters

New in version 0.5

• The algorithm for reading the child output should now be definitely correct

New version 0.4

• New algorithm for reading the child output: now it does not hang anymore when reading the child output.

New version 0.3

• Changed name to avoid conflicting with another already existing program with the same name

News in version 0.2

• --infinite-runs now works fine

launchtool download

launchtool is available both in a source .tar.gz and in a i386 Debian package signed by me.

Normal download

Debian APT repository

deb http://people.debian.org/~enrico/ woody/$(ARCH)
deb http://people.debian.org/~enrico/ woody/all/
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~enrico/ woody/source/

Author and copyright

launchtool has been written by Enrico Zini.

License is GPL, and LGPL for some general purpose source modules that could as well be part of a library.