# Daemons
# Overview
Powered by Supervisor, daemons are used to keep long-running scripts alive. For instance, you could start a daemon to keep a ReactPHP application running. If the process stops executing, Supervisor will automatically restart the process.
# Configuring Daemons
When creating a new daemon you need to provide Forge with the following information:
Command: The command that should be run by the daemon. For example: php artisan websockets:serve.
User: The operating system user that should be used to invoke the command. By default, the forge user will be used.
Directory: The directory in which to run your command from. This can be left empty.
Processes: This option determines how many instances of the process should be kept running.
Start Seconds: The total number of seconds the program must stay running in order to consider the start successful.
Stop Seconds: The number of seconds Supervisor will allow for the daemon to gracefully stop before forced termination.
Stop Signal: The signal used to kill the program when a stop is requested.
# Log Files
Forge automatically configures your daemon to write to its own log file. Logs can be found within the /home/forge/.forge/ directory. Log files are named daemon-*.log.
User Isolation
If you are using Forge's user isolation features, you should navigate to the .forge directory within the /home/{username} directory based on the user that the process belongs to in order to locate the daemon's log files.