https://github.com/bfontaine/homer

Daemonize all the things
https://github.com/bfontaine/homer

c cli daemon tool

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Daemonize all the things

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bfontaine/homer
• Owner: bfontaine
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-04-09T15:54:14.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-02-13T12:56:07.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-10T06:20:48.225Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: c, cli, daemon, tool
• Language: C
• Homepage: https://bfontaine.github.io/homer
• Size: 359 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: History.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# homer(1)

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**Homer** is a command-line tool to daemonize a task.

## Install

### With Homebrew (OSX)

    brew tap bfontaine/utils

    brew install homer

### From sources

    git clone https://github.com/bfontaine/homer.git

    cd homer

    [sudo] make install

## Usage

    $ homer mycommand args ...

It’ll start `mycommand args ...` in a daemonized processus and print its PID.

Type `homer -h` or see [the man page][man] to see all available options as well

as usage examples.

[man]: https://bfontaine.github.io/homer

### Features

- PID file support

- stdout/stderr log files support

## Tests

    git clone https://github.com/bfontaine/homer.git

    cd homer

    make test

## License

[MIT][LICENSE].

[LICENSE]: https://github.com/bfontaine/homer/blob/master/LICENSE

## Why?

![](https://github.com/bfontaine/homer/raw/master/images/all_the_things.png)