While looking for that, I also found or remembered: DJB's daemontools - http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html InitNG - http://initng.thinktux.net runit - http://smarden.org/runit/ cinit - http://linux.schottelius.org/cinit/ finito - http://web.isteve.bofh.cz/finito/ YAYAS. (Yet Another "Yet Another" Scenario. ;-) ) -- Ben