Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:55:44 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: David Banning <david+dated+1063050181.812806@skytracker.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to run a program as a daemon Message-ID: <3F564740.5050704@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030903194259.GA23225@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030903194259.GA23225@skytrackercanada.com>
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David Banning wrote:
> I am running tmda-ofmipd for my smtp server and occasionally
> it dies. I wonder how I could set it up to run so that if it
> dies for some reason, it will start up again. Right now, it
> starts in my rc.local like so;
>
> /usr/local/bin/tmda-ofmipd -R imap://localhost -u tofmipd
Look at DJB's daemontools, perhaps. But the general idea is that you have a
monitor script which looks like:
#! /bin/sh
while : ; do
/usr/local/bin/tmda-ofmipd -R imap://localhost -u tofmipd
echo "TMDA daemon died! Restarting in 5 seconds..."
sleep 5
done
--
-Chuck
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