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The name pies (pronounced "p-yes") stands for Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor. This utility starts and controls execution of external programs, called components. Each component is a stand-alone program, which is executed in the foreground. Upon startup, pies reads the list of components from its configuration file, starts them, and remains in the background, controlling their execution. When any of the components terminates, pies restarts it. Its configuration allows to specify actions other than simple restart, depending on the exit code of the component.

Pies can also be used as init daemon - the first process started during booting, as inetd program - to start listen on network sockets and starts programs when a connection is requested, or as a combination of the two. It can use native configuration files of the corresponding utilities or a configuration file in its own format, which gives much more flexibility.

Pies can also be used within a docker container as its entrypoint.

In all uses, the control interface provides extensive monitoring and management capabilities.

Registration Date: Tue Oct 13 08:37:00 2009
License: GNU General Public License V3 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable