Exactly. I just want to keep a couple of processes running without having to learn the DJB ecosystem. I also want them portable if we shift off CentOS to Ubuntu in the future or something.
I'd argue that the DJB ecosystem has an almost-zero learning curve if you have a decent grasp on your systems fundamentals. As long as you understand how process handling works, the administrivia of DJB's tools is dirt simple.
It also has the odd benefit of already being cross-platform, so even if you move whole systems distributions (e.g., from Debian GNU/Linux to FreeBSD), you can still use that same knowledge there too.
Edit: Note that simple does not imply easy. Daemontools, for example, does not provide a means for doing dependency handling, so you'll actually have to engineer around that by writing a script to handle it. Same goes for bouncing things that go off the rails. Same goes for pretty much anything that does not fall strictly under the purview of starting a process and restarting it if it crashes.
