⚠️ Warning ⚠️: currently, lanco only works with cgroups v1. It could be adapted for cgroups v2 but I don't use it anymore and nobody asked about it either. Nowadays, lanco could be replaced by systemd-run.

lanĉo

A more complete presentation can be found on this blog post.

Features

lanco is a task launcher which does not want to be an init program.

• No daemon.
• Run each task in a dedicated cgroup.
• Log the output of the task to a file.
• Check if a task is still running.
• Stop a task.
• No need to be root.

Each task is given a name and enclosed into a cgroup. The cgroup is used to keep track of the task. If the cgroup still exists, the task is considered to be running. Stopping a task is equivalent to killing the tasks in the cgroup.

Usage

The usage is described in the lanco.8 manual page.

Name

lanĉo means "launcher" in Esperanto. It should have been spelled "lancxo" without the diacritic but I have learned about it too late.