Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 09:53:17 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, Sodah <rsodah@index.com.jo> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: monitor process Message-ID: <4.1.19990630094901.00aa22d0@mail-r> In-Reply-To: <19990630094731.A50144@dan.emsphone.com> References: <377B7199.DF55C8F7@index.com.jo> <377B7199.DF55C8F7@index.com.jo>
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At 07:47 AM 6/30/1999 , Dan Nelson 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 > >then I run that script instead of "brokenprogram". Another options is supervise from Dan J. Berenstein's daemontools package: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/daemontools.html >supervise monitors a service. It starts the service and restarts the service >if it dies. The companion svc program stops, pauses, or restarts the service >on sysadmin request. The svstat program prints a one-line status report. It's also in the ports collection at file://localhost/usr/ports/sysutils/daemontools Supervise is nice because it simplifies sending signals to brokenprogram (you don't have to track the PID) and you use the companion program 'svc' to control starting, restarting, and killing brokenprogram. The only problem with supervise is that it doesn't handle programs which pre-fork (like sshd, unless you tell it you're running from inetd). --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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