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Daemonless background processes for Linux

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pt — daemonless background processes for Linux (WIP)

Run and manage background processes without daemon or root privileges. pt is a small process manager with limited capabilities

pt stands for process tool.

Features

Run arbitrary command in background. The process will be adopted by /sbin/init.
No daemon needed. pt just stores pidfile in runtime directory and checks procfs on invokation.
Run commands defined in the configuration file.
Set environment and working directory for process.
Run commands selected by labels.
Print defined commands and currently running commands.
[not implemented] Run commands without writing configuration file.
[not implemented] TUI.

First install V compiler.

Clone this repo and do:

cd pt
make
install -Dm0755 pt $HOME/.local/bin/pt
install -Dm0644 completion.bash ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/bash-completion/completions/pt

Next step is configuration.

Default configuration file is ~/.ptrc. This is TOML format file.

See full configuration example with comments in ptrc.toml.