Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:31:56 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Dave Walton <dwalton@psiint.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Respawn in BSD? Message-ID: <9603282031.AA04496@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.960328121239.43928A-100000@vv.psiint.com> References: <Pine.Sola.3.91.960328094707.415B-100000@chicago> <Pine.A32.3.91.960328121239.43928A-100000@vv.psiint.com>
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<<On Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:18:16 -0800 (PST), Dave Walton <dwalton@psiint.com> said: > In the System V inittab file, you can give the 'respawn' keyword so that > if the given process ever dies, init will automatically restart it. I've > seen this used to ensure that cron is alway running, for example. > How is it possible to do this in FreeBSD? Processes listed in /etc/ttys > are restarted, but that's for getty and friends, and isn't really > appropriate for cron, etc. By writing programs that don't have bugs in them causing random crashes. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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