Open Source NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager Alternatives

The best open source alternative to NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager is Run as Service. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked eight alternatives to NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager and four of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager are Shawl, WinSW and Daemon Master.

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NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager alternatives page was last updated Mar 12, 2021
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    This tool requires that .NET Framework 2.0 be already installed on your computer. If you do not have .NET Framework 2.0 this tool will display a message and not run. You probably already have the .NET Framework 2.

    8 Run as Service alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Run as Service is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager.

    • Run as Service is Free and Open SourceNSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager is also Free and Open Source
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    Shawl is a wrapper for running arbitrary programs as Windows services, written in Rust. It handles the Windows service API for you so that your program only needs to respond to ctrl-C/SIGINT. If you're creating a project that needs to run as a service, simply bundle Shawl...

    7 Shawl alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Shawl Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Run as a Service
    3.  Rust
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    winsw - A wrapper executable that can be used to host any executable as an Windows service, in a liberal license

    7 WinSW alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    WinSW Features

    1.  Run as a Service
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    Daemon Master is a software which makes it possible to create and manage a Windows-service from any program. (Alpha)

    9 Daemon Master alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Daemon Master Features

    1.  Root required
    2.  Run as a Service
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