Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 09:40:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr <dburr@pobox.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Sodah <rsodah@index.com.jo> Subject: Re: monitor process Message-ID: <XFMail.990630094012.dburr@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <19990630094731.A50144@dan.emsphone.com>
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (actually, it was on 30-Jun-99), the great prophet Dan Nelson once wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 01), Sodah said: >> Greetings, >> >> I have process that dies after 4 hours or more. >> Is it possible to monitor it and make it starts again >> in auto-mode without typing it at the prompt? > > what I usually do is write a small wrapper script: > > while : ; do > brokenprogram > sleep 10 > done The daemontools port (/usr/ports/sysutils/daemontools) is excellent for doing just this type of thing. You can start a service (program) with the "svc" command, and it will keep monitoring it, and, if it dies, will restart it for you. --- Donald Burr <dburr@pobox.com>-Member The FreeBSD Project| PGP: Your *NEW* WWW HomePage: http://more.at/dburr/ ICQ #16997506 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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