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Port details on branch 2026Q1
daemontools Service monitoring and logging utilities by djb
0.76_20 sysutils on this many watch lists=95 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 0.76_20Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: bdrewery@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: unknown
Last Update: 2025-10-05 14:35:00
Commit Hash: 54e1cb9
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License: PD
WWW:
https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
Description:
Daemontools is a small set of /very/ useful utilities, from Dan Bernstein. They are mainly used for controlling processes, and maintaining logfiles.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/daemontools-0.76_20/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/daemontools-0.76_20/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/daemontools-0.76_20/PD
  4. bin/svscan
  5. bin/svscanboot
  6. bin/supervise
  7. bin/svc
  8. bin/svok
  9. bin/svstat
  10. bin/fghack
  11. bin/pgrphack
  12. bin/multilog
  13. bin/tai64n
  14. bin/tai64nlocal
  15. bin/softlimit
  16. bin/setuidgid
  17. bin/envuidgid
  18. bin/envdir
  19. bin/setlock
  20. bin/readproctitle
  21. share/man/man8/multilog.8.gz
  22. share/man/man8/tai64n.8.gz
  23. share/man/man8/pgrphack.8.gz
  24. share/man/man8/svscan.8.gz
  25. share/man/man8/fghack.8.gz
  26. share/man/man8/svscanboot.8.gz
  27. share/man/man8/setlock.8.gz
  28. share/man/man8/readproctitle.8.gz
  29. share/man/man8/envuidgid.8.gz
  30. share/man/man8/setuidgid.8.gz
  31. share/man/man8/envdir.8.gz
  32. share/man/man8/softlimit.8.gz
  33. share/man/man8/supervise.8.gz
  34. share/man/man8/svc.8.gz
  35. share/man/man8/tai64nlocal.8.gz
  36. share/man/man8/svstat.8.gz
  37. share/man/man8/svok.8.gz
  38. @owner
  39. @group
  40. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • svscan
Dependency lines:
  • daemontools>0:sysutils/daemontools
Conflicts:
CONFLICTS:
  • daemontools-encore
  • freedt
  • serialmail
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/daemontools/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install sysutils/daemontools
  • pkg install daemontools
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: daemontools
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
SHA256 (daemontools-0.76.tar.gz) = a55535012b2be7a52dcd9eccabb9a198b13be50d0384143bd3b32b8710df4c1f SIZE (daemontools-0.76.tar.gz) = 36975 SHA256 (daemontools-0.76-man-20010714.tar.gz) = d99a12be71a7bff2fc46546dce02bf102eba401dbadddc29f0fe4bb6d8826c1b

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SIZE (daemontools-0.76-man-20010714.tar.gz) = 7992 SHA256 (daemontools-0.76.sigq12.patch) = 149569b2c1a81435d4b9be5905564b2743cdcb8e5ebd1c626d5cb401761e06ae SIZE (daemontools-0.76.sigq12.patch) = 1975

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
daemontools
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest0.76_200.76_200.76_180.76_200.76_20n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly0.76_200.76_200.76_180.76_200.76_20n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest0.76_200.76_200.76_180.76_200.76_200.76_18-0.76_18
FreeBSD:14:quarterly0.76_200.76_20-0.76_200.76_200.76_180.76_180.76_18
FreeBSD:15:latest0.76_200.76_20n/a0.76_20n/an/a0.76_190.76_19
FreeBSD:15:quarterly0.76_200.76_20n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest0.76_200.76_20n/a-n/an/a--
This port has no dependencies.
This port is required by:
for Build
  1. sysutils/uschedule

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. mail/qmail-scanner*
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  1. dns/dq
  2. dns/ldapdns
  3. sysutils/uschedule

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. dns/curvedns*
  2. dns/djbdns*
  3. dns/sqldjbdns*
  4. mail/qmail-ldap*
  5. mail/qmail-scanner*
  6. sysutils/clockspeed-conf*
  7. sysutils/penv*
  8. www/publicfile*
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Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for daemontools-0.76_20: MAN=on: Install Gerrit Pape's manual pages SIGQ12=off: Add svc support for QUIT, USR1, and USR2 signals TESTS=on: Run the test suite, fails on NFS-mounted workdir ====> Options available for the single SEQ: you have to select exactly one of them S_EARLY=off: Start early, before the normal daemons S_NORMAL=on: Start normally in the usual boot sequence ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
sysutils_daemontools
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/
  2. http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/bdrewery/daemontools/
  3. http://distcache.eu.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/bdrewery/daemontools/
  4. http://distcache.us-east.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/bdrewery/daemontools/
  5. http://distcache.us-west.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/bdrewery/daemontools/
  6. http://mirror.shatow.net/freebsd/daemontools/
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