Top 15 LaunchControl Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

LaunchControl is the new face of launchd(8). It allows you to manage system- and user services on your Mac. Use it to:

-start programs automatically when certain conditions are met (date, existence of a directory, network status, …)
-start/stop jobs manually when you need them with just a klick
-automatically restart programs when they crashed
-fine tune existing services
-find (and remove) services installed by applications
-discover what is possible with launchd(8)

1. Lingon

Lingon [The Lingon open-source project on SourceForge.net ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/lingon/ ) is no longer developed.] Lingon is a graphical user interface for creating an editing launchd configuration files for Mac OS X. Lingon can start an app, a script or run a command automatically whenever you want it to. You can schedule......

2. System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Configuration Manager System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr or Configuration Manager), formerly Systems Management Server (SMS), is a systems management software product by Microsoft for managing large groups of Windows-based computer systems. Configuration Manager provides remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory.......

3. FAI

FAI FAI, Fully Automatic Installation, is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to large-scale infrastructures like clusters and cloud environments.It's a tool for unattended mass deployment of Linux. You can take......

4. wicd

wicd Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.......

5. Music Player Daemon

Music Player Daemon Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.......

6. ProFTPD

ProFTPD ProFTPD is a high-performance, extremely configurable, and most of all a secure FTP server, featuring Apache-like configuration and blazing performance.ProFTPD grew out of the desire to have a secure and configurable FTP server, and out of a significant admiration of the Apache web server.When the Project began, the most commonly......

7. Denyhosts

Denyhosts The idea of denying access to SSH servers is nothing new and I was inspired by many other scripts that I discovered. However, none of them did things the way I envisioned them to. Also, they were all shell scripts which do not offer the elegance of Python.Denyhosts provides SSH......

8. perp

perp The perp package provides a set of daemons and utilities to reliably start, monitor, log, and control a collection of persistent processes.......

9. btpd

btpd The BitTorrent Protocol DaemonBtpd is a utility for sharing files over the BitTorrent network protocol. It runs in daemon mode, thus needing no controlling terminal or gui. Instead, the daemon is controlled by btcli, its command line utility, or other programs capable of sending commands and queries on the control......

10. ansible-cmdb

ansible-cmdb Ansible-cmdb takes the output of Ansible's fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML overview page containing system configuration information. It supports multiple types of output (html, csv, sql, etc) and extending information gathered by Ansible with custom data. For each host it also shows the groups, host variables,......

11. Deployer

Deployer Deployer is a deployment tool written in PHP, it's simple and functional. Deploy your code to all servers you want, it supports deploy via copy, or via VCS (like git), or via rsync. Run your tasks on all your servers, or use our recipes of common tasks for Symfony, Laravel,......

12. initool

initool initool lets you manipulate the contents of INI files from the command line.......

13. Augeas

Augeas Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into native config files.......

14. rConfig

rConfig rConfig is a free open source network device configuration management utility for network engineers to take frequent configuration snapshots of their network devices.......

15. Propellor

Propellor Propellor is configured via a git repository, which typically lives in ~/.propellor/ on your development machine. Propellor clones the repository to each host it manages, in a secure way.Properties are defined using Haskell. There is fairly complete API documentation, which includes many built-in properties for dealing with APT and Apache,......