ANN: LAUM administration tool released

[Andrew]

Hello,

I have released a new version of LAUM, a platform-independent
administration tool. It is free software, released under the GPL
version 3. It is very early days at the moment, this is only version
0.0.2. The only component in LAUM right now is ASSAM, which stands for
Application Service Startup And Monitoring. LAUM can be downloaded
from http://laum.sourceforge.net.

ASSAM provides a means of starting and monitoring application
services. The phrase `application services' means non-interactive
background processes that are assumed to be long-running, i.e. always
available.

Unix does not provide a facility for starting and monitoring daemons.
Microsoft~Windows does provide a facility but it requires that each
program being started must be implemented as a Service (using the
special WIN32 API calls). What is needed is the ability to start and
monitor processes without the requirement that the programs be coded
in any special OS-specific way. ASSAM fills this need.

Any and all feedback is most welcome.

Regards,

Andrew Marlow
http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk