It is a little frivolous, but "signaldctl" is the most horridly awkward naming for the command line tool. The letters "ctl" are in a terrible location on the keyboard for smooth typing, but ignoring that, it doesn't even fit in typical naming where "signald" would have a "signalctl" binary to control it

Of course you can't really use "signal" because that's the name of the official product, but it still feels like there are better alternatives than the handful that was chosen

(Apologies for pulling a HN classic and being the only comment on the thread complaining about something dumb. At least it wasn't a comment on the web page type face!)

signald author here, open to suggestions on that name. As you've noticed, I try to avoid using the word "signal". I do agree that the current name is pretty awkward.

edit: the name for signaldctl. I'm not looking to rename signald at this time

Not that I particularly think there's anything wrong with signaldctl, but for other apps that employ a daemon/control model, I've always found d and -cli combo to be good naming scheme.

So signald and signal-cli in this case.

well "signal-cli" is already in use by https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli (which signald is a fork of)