zerod

Small process control system without master process

This tool is designed for cases when supervisord or systemd is too heavy for you. It should be interesting for development purpose or in running something "without obligations"

Should work on Linux and MacOS. It's possible to make it running on other unix

Usage

Put zerod script into your working directory and make it executable

Remember: zerod is name-agnostic: you may rename it as you want, or make its copy or symlink

If you decided to put zerod script into your git repository, don't forget to append your .gitignore file with zerod.temp/ line

./zerod init (getting started)

Let zerod to build small example config. It should create .zerod directory. Then you have to open .zerod directory and change example config file:

Zerod config

The main variable you have to set is CMD variable

Also you may allow zerod to run many instancies of CMD via setting MANY=1

Set RESTART=1 to make zerod restart the process if it was stopped

You may also change other zerod variables. Feel free to do it

./zerod start

Just start the CMD

./zerod stop

Just stop all instancies of CMD

./zerod restart

Stops all instancies of CMD and then starts once

Zerod logs

Logs are stored in .zerod/log file, but I've add useful commands

./zerod log tail

Last log reading

./zerod log clear

Clear old logs

./zerod ps

List of zerod controlled processess. Check it after CMD changing

./zerod run # script

You may add your scripts into .zerod/scripts directory. Script working directory will be the same as ./zerod script is called. Environment variable ZEROD is passed to script referring to previously called ./zerod script