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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:53:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      David Scheidt <rufus@brain.mics.net>
To:        Jacco <jacco@lionsoft.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Frank Laszlo <nez@FREEBSDMATRIX.NET>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Start scripts as "deamons"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.20.0110301751440.15018-100000@brain.mics.net>
In-Reply-To: <LEEGJHDFDIEGNMNMDFNDKEEKEGAA.jacco@lionsoft.xs4all.nl>

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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Jacco wrote:

> Hi Frank,
> 
> | Are you talking about crontab? or maybe /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> | either way, crontab will allow you to run scripts and make sure they keep
> | running at specified times, and the fold i specified is the folder to put
> | scripts in that you wish to have start when you boot.
> 
> Unfortunately I realy mean a inittab:
> 
> This means that the script always runs when the machine is up and not at a
> defined time (crontab). You can kill it with a "killall -HUP processname"
> and it comes right back up and running again..... (on my RedHat 6.2 machine
> witch is a bad one and has to be replaced by FreeBSD).
> I'm looking for a similar option in Freebsd.

take a look at d.j. bernstein's daemontools:
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

davdi

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