It is lightweight, very easy to understand and reason about (much more than systemd - and it’s not just an issue of familiarity - it has much fewer moving parts than systemd’s service management part).
It’s rock solid. It goes to great length to never lose process output, not even a single char, across service restarts. (it might be possible to achieve same on systemd - but it isn’t trivial)
And it’s been that way for me for two decades now - Ubuntu moved from system v to upstart to systemd; my systems still use the same daemontools setup they used 15 years ago, they do it on FreeBSD and Linux. And they just work, no surprises.
It’s rock solid. It goes to great length to never lose process output, not even a single char, across service restarts. (it might be possible to achieve same on systemd - but it isn’t trivial)
And it’s been that way for me for two decades now - Ubuntu moved from system v to upstart to systemd; my systems still use the same daemontools setup they used 15 years ago, they do it on FreeBSD and Linux. And they just work, no surprises.