Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:38:23 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton <dwalton@psiint.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Respawn in BSD? Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960328123429.43928C-100000@vv.psiint.com> In-Reply-To: <9603282031.AA04496@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<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. Of course. And all my programs are written this well. :) But it's possible for processes to die from external causes, even if it's something as simple as a super-user making a typo in a kill command. It would seem to make sense to have some way of automatically recovering from something like this. Are you saying that it's not possible in BSD? Dave ========================================================================== David Walton Unix Programmer PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 ==========================================================================
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