# Install daemonize with Homebrew, apt, dnf, Nix, zypper

Run a command as a UNIX daemon. Version 1.7.8 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install daemonize.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:daemonize
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install daemonize
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install daemonize
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: daemonize from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install daemonize
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: daemonize from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#daemonize
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/da/daemonize/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install daemonize
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: daemonize from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:daemonize
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.7.8
- **Source summary:** Run a command as a UNIX daemon
- **Homepage:** <https://software.clapper.org/daemonize/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bmc/daemonize>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- daemonize (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.7.8
## Project history and usage

daemonize is a small C command-line utility for running another command as a Unix daemon when that program does not daemonize itself correctly.

### Project history

The daemonize GitHub repository was created in 2010, while the official project page describes the tool in the tradition of W. Richard Stevens' Unix daemon definition. The page links the GitHub repository, release downloads, and a manpage.

### Adoption history

daemonize spread through Unix package managers because it solves a narrow operational problem with very little surface area. The official page explicitly documents Homebrew installation for macOS and source builds for other Unix-like systems.

### How it is used

Users wrap a foreground command with daemonize so it detaches, runs in the background, and can redirect stdin, stdout, stderr, pidfiles, and working-directory behavior according to the manpage.

### Why package nerds care

daemonize is a classic tiny-admin-tool package: stable C source, autoconf build, BSD licensing, a manpage, and a job that remains useful whenever a service process lacks its own daemon mode.

### Timeline

- 2010: daemonize repository created.
- 2010s: 1.6 and 1.7 release-tag series published.
- 2026: repository still maintained with recent activity.

### Related projects

- daemonize is related to daemon, Unix daemon(3), FreeBSD daemon(1), init scripts, and process-supervision tools.

### Sources

- <https://software.clapper.org/daemonize>
- <https://software.clapper.org/daemonize/daemonize.html>
- <https://github.com/bmc/daemonize>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/bmc/daemonize>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - daemonize - 1.7.8-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: daemonize from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | tool to run a command as a daemon | http://software.clapper.org/daemonize/
- Nix - daemonize: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/da/daemonize/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - daemonize - 1.7.8-3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: daemonize from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | tool to run a command as a daemon | http://software.clapper.org/daemonize/
- dnf - daemonize - 1.7.8-16.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: daemonize from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Run a command as a Unix daemon | http://www.clapper.org/software/daemonize/
- zypper - daemonize - 1.7.8-2.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: daemonize from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Command line utility to run any program as a Unix daemon | https://github.com/bmc/daemonize


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/daemonize.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/daemonize.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph