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Subject: Re: (Ab)using rcng's features to keep rc.d-style services running 
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On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:11:18 +0100
Alex Trull <alex@trull.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I realised that because portupgrade/portmaster don't always 
> cleanly restart processes that have died due to being 
> upgraded (mysqld, often!) that this was something I wanted 
> to fix.

You can configure portupgrade (and FWIW portmanager) to do this. Take
look at the sample configuration file.