#daemontools
it's hard to overstate how whipped modern gamers are compared to nerds in the 2000s. there was a significant minority of people who hated Steam *for being DRM*. everyone knew how to pirate. there was an arms race between games trying to detect if you had DaemonTools installed and ways to hide it
April 27, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Oh I love Devil Summoner Soul Hackers 3

Also:
DVD-R -> Demonic Vision Disc Ritual
DaemonTools - c'mon
If younger people ask you about burning CDs, please tell them you were literally burning CDs to keep evil beings trapped in the woods.

To add to this new lore,
CD-R=Compact Disc Ritual
CD-RW=Compact Disc Ritual Witches/Warlocks.
My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Imgburn, Alcohol 120%, Nero, CloneCD, Discjuggler, DaemonTools, an adware-filled copy of PowerISO
June 26, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Daemontools!
September 1, 2026 at 12:47 AM
I'm an old geezer, been using Linux since '97 or so. I had used daemontools (from DJB) never knew there was something with the same name on windows. So the PSA works both ways! Thanks!
January 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
It was the day I discovered daemontools
December 4, 2024 at 8:54 AM
at least be able to mount a drive with daemontools
December 21, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Samo da se sjetim kako se ono koristi pa ću ovdje napraviti malu školicu kako se koristi. Ako se dobro sjećam nešto sa DaemonTools Lite
December 9, 2024 at 10:37 AM
I introduced my friends to torrents and DaemonTools and all that and blew their fucking minds

Nowadays I am old man yells at cloud.

I’m 37, Jeff. Six kids will do things to a man.
January 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The weird thing is that most Linux users will never need or interact with daemontools. Unless they want to do something like replace their init system, a la troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/su... . Worth looking at, but not necessary in the general case.
Installing Suckless Init/Felker Init Plus Daemontools-Encore on Plop Linux
Installing Suckless-Init/Felker-Init on plop Linux.
troubleshooters.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:53 PM
One of the foul pieces of software I've ever had to deal with and I've survived through Limewire, DaemonTools, iTunes, RealPlayer, mDickie games, printer software, and having to backinstall Windows 98 on a machine to scrub Windows Vista off of it because it prevented downgrading straight to XP.
June 5, 2026 at 7:47 AM
God i just looked up if daemontools is sti a thing and i guess yes but its not freeware anymore. Thats like if winrar started charging. Bodied by this.
January 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, May 6th, 2026: Cleartext Passwords in Edge; SSL.com Root Rotation; DAEMONTOOLS Backdoor;
https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9920
May 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Microsoft says NeedyMantis is being used in targeted intrusions to maintain long-term access in breached networks, with links to the DAEMON Tools supply-chain incident and Storm-3069. #NeedyMantis #Storm3069 #DAEMONTools
Hackers Use NeedyMantis To Maintain Long-Term Access In Breached Networks
Microsoft says the NeedyMantis malware family has been used in targeted intrusions to maintain long-term access inside already breached networks across sectors such as telecommunications, universities, and government contractors. The activity overlaps with the DAEMON Tools supply chain incident and is linked to Storm-3069, with indicators including the C2 domain corp.tripswithengine[.]com...
www.hendryadrian.com
September 29, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Can you cover all programs written by DJB? Start with daemontools and work you way up to djbdns
July 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In this case, since it was pretty early days in the evolution of the concept on Linux (2008-ish), I was mostly looking at it as a possible avenue to replace softlimit from Dan Bernstein's daemontools and chroot.

The Perl built a root filesystem, and the C++ supervised running stuff from it.
February 21, 2024 at 7:41 AM
しかもUNIX系のOSで動くプロセス管理ツールでdaemontoolsというのがあるという。
May 7, 2026 at 8:27 PM
i was trying to get my cdrom games onto my latitude d430 (which does not have a cdrom bay) and remembered. oh fuck daemontools EXISTS. i forgotsies
January 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
老舗仮想ドライブソフト「DAEMON Tools」にマルウェア混入、1カ月近く気づかれず公式配布されていたと判明
#DAEMONTools #DAEMONToolsLite #ITニュース
ITちゃんねる
老舗仮想ドライブソフト「DAEMON Tools」にマルウェア混入、1カ月近く気づかれず公式配布されていたと判明 #DAEMONTools #DAEMONToolsLite #ITニュース
it.f-frontier.com
May 7, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Next troubleshooting step: check if W98 even sees the audio tracks on the CD.
Might need to install an audio software for that.
If yes, it's a driver/config thing for sure, if not it must be an issue with DaemonTools.
July 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
DAEMON Tools Lite wurde gehackt: Seit Anfang April verteilte die offizielle Website eine mit Trojanern infizierte Version. Betroffen sind Build 12.5.0.2421 bis 12.5.0.2434. #DAEMONTools #Malware
Gefahr für Windows-Computer: DAEMON Tools Lite wurde kompromittiert
winfuture.de
May 6, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Hell yeah! Nowadays less need for daemontools especially now that eroge are a lot more accessible now

When I think of ero VNs the first few I played included Wanko to Kurasou, Katawa Shoujo, and Saya No Uta (I don’t really see this as an eroge personally but it’s technically one).
June 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
how those services were run was mostly up to the preferences of the system administrator installing them. what was important was that they eventually ran.

back then, i shipped daemontools run scripts and NT service wrappers. in modern day, i'd probably ship a bucket of yaml describing All The Pods.
March 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Right. None of these are fantastic. #Synology has all Seagate Iron Wolf Pros, 2x storage pools, 1 volume per pool, brtfs. Network backplane is Cat6, 1Gbps via TL-SG2428P (no QoS set right now), with 4x LAG to the #nas. Mac connected using #daemontools as the iSCSI initiator. Formatted APFS.
November 17, 2024 at 10:09 PM