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The perp package provides a set of daemons and utilities to reliably
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start, monitor, log, and control a collection of persistent processes.
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A "persistent process" is any program intended to be long-running,
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highly available, and purpose critical. Also known and often described
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as a "service", a persistent process normally provides some essential,
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on-demand system service. Programs that serve email, domain name
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queries, and http requests are all examples of services that are
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normally run as persistent processes.
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These are the programs that you want to start at system boot, and
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to continue running for as long as the system itself. These are the
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programs you need running in uninterrupted service, day and night,
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forever and ever.
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perp helps make sure that they do.
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